Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/

#HackerNews #ZipDrives #90sTech #techHistory #nostalgia #dataStorage

Hackaday: Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back On LPT. “[Minh Danh] is one of those who still has affection for Zip drives, and when his parallel port Zip 100 drive started to give up the ghost last year, he decided to do something bold: reverse engineer it, and produce an emulator. First software, and then in hardware.”

#DiggingUpBones
I've decided to give up on getting a reader for these ancient #iomega zip disks.

What a waste. They're now useless. Can't remember what's in them anymore. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm dismantling them before trashing them -- segregated, of course.

#zipdrives #security #housekeeping #GarbageSegregation