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 ...

Iomega’s Zip drives filled an interesting niche back in the 1990s. A magnetic disk that was physically floppy-sized, but much ...

The Harold B. Lee Library is phasing out zip and floppy disk drives on most of its open-access computers, and library staff members are suggesting that patrons use other forms of media to save their ...

Why Zip disks and LS-120s couldn't defeat the 1.44MB disk ...

An earlier 3.5" removable disk format from Iomega. When Zip disks came out in 1995 with 100MB cartridges, their huge storage compared to floppy disks made them very popular. However, like all ...

We have received a number of corroborating reports, suggesting that Iomega Zip drives experience very slow transfer rates under a variety of systems running Mac OS X 10.2.x. 100 MB Disks Joe Ligotti ...

Is it possible to create a DOS 6.22 (or Win98 DOS) bootable Zip disk? If so, does anyone have detailed instruction on how to do this?<P>I have an ATAPI Zip250 drive, if that makes a difference. I'd ...

i think you'd have to set it up to be a boot drive in the bios. but i'm not really sure, as i don't run beos ...

When the Zip drive first arrived on the scene, the storage market was itching for affordable, easy-to-use, and higher-capacity removable media. Iomega’s latest offering, the Zip 750MB FireWire ...

Recap: Iomega introduced its removable floppy disk storage system in the mid-90s. While its medium-to-high-capacity disks were highly coveted, the format never became popular enough to replace the ...

Some of you may remember when 5 1/4-inch floppy disks were standard on computers for removable media that was rewritable. I believe I gave my last disks away with the old computer that used them. In ...