Al Sweigart4d ago

Sometimes I think about zip disks, those 100mb, 250mb (even 1gb!) floppy disks. Were they filling an important niche until burnable CDs became available? Or were they a silly evolutionary dead end, and their presence/absence wouldn't matter in the short or long term?

Who knows. Some things aren't obvious even in hindsight.

Show threadKiki Buber
@AlSweigart It beat breaking up design file releases over multiple floppies, but nobody ever returned them, no matter how nice were the stickers were put on them. And they were expensive!Towards the end there was starting to be an unspoken agreement that agencies and printers would just keep them in flow, so you always had an assortment of somebody else’s disks…
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