LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴Apr 21

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

#retrocomputing #zipDrive

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

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

A major flaw brought this promising format to its end

XDA
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 19
Ah, the Zip drive! The floppy disk's cooler, edgier cousin that wore out its welcome faster than a dial-up connection 🚀📼. The article drones on with #nostalgia, forgetting that the real reason they vanished is nobody misses a storage device that sounds like a leaf blower. 🌪️💾
https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/ #ZipDrive #FloppyDiskTech #ObsoleteStorage #TechThrowback #HackerNews #ngated
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

A major flaw brought this promising format to its end

XDA
Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 24

From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

13Mar 24
From Zip To Nought: The Rise and Fall of Iomega https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/
#Featured #History #MiscHacks #OriginalArt #Iomega #Jaz #Jazdrive #Magneticstorage #Removablestorage #Storage #Zip #Zipdrive
From Zip To Nought: The Rise And Fall Of Iomega

If you were anywhere near a computer in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly encountered a Zip drive. That distinctive purple peripheral, with its satisfying clunk as you slotted in a cartri…

Hackaday
Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 17

Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/zip-drive-emulator-puts-big-disks-back-on-lpt/

13Mar 18
Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back on LPT https://hackaday.com/2026/03/17/zip-drive-emulator-puts-big-disks-back-on-lpt/
#Retrocomputing #Diskemulator #Driveemulator #LPT #Parallelport #ZipDisk #Zipdrive
Zip-Drive Emulator Puts Big Disks Back On LPT

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much larger in capacity– starting at 100 MB, and reaching 750 MB…

Hackaday
Jessica PhoenixDec 12

Frankly, I miss PCMCIA, and ZIP drives. Computing that required putting chunky cards and cassettes and stuff into drives. Old 90s anime style computing.

I know some of you know exactly what I mean. Please send GIFs that fit that aesthetic, or pictures of your gear that fits the bill 💜

#retrocomputing #ZipDrive #pcmcia

in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Aug 18, 2025
Playing around with virt-manager in #opensuse. #win98se running. Still fiddle around to share an image or folder with the host linux.
#zipdrive will be the playaround, if I can't manage :)
@Rp12Biker Jul 31, 2025
When was your last #Terminal session in #Windows3 to transfer a few driver files via xmodem protocol? My successful try is a few minutes ago and now the small and handy #HP #OmniBook #HP600C can speak with the #ZipDrive.
#RetroComputing #MSDOS
onionJul 7, 2025
When you did that "put an old Macintosh on the Internet" thing already in the late 1990s and nobody cared (or mainly considered you a silly stupid nerd). #macintoshplus #ppp #zipdrive