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…
  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    IMO the Zip disks, Jaz disks, and MiniDiscs were the last really satisfying physical media formats (UMD was also really cool, but somehow even more niche given it was PSP-specific).

    There was something about them that just made you feel like a secret agent using them. Like a prop out of a James Bond movie where the villain keeps their plans.

    CDs and DVDs had nothing on them.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    6·
    2 months ago

    Despite the fact that click death was avoidable with a simple bracket OR an updated driver AND only affected their very first product, I won’t really miss them.

    If Jazz drives had been their first product and at a reasonable price point, things probably would’ve gone differently for them.

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      yeah at the time I REALLY wished I knew the easiest fix was a stupid bracket I wouldn’t have gone through so many. I loved my zip drive but after like the 4th or 5th one dying on me I gave up.