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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
- Daqu ( @Daqu@lemm.ee ) 16•5 months ago
click - your data is lost
I liked them anyways. The IDE drives were fast and cheap, CD-R was still too expensive.
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) 4•5 months ago
I still remember getting my first TDK burner, and going through mad numbers of CD-Rs due to failed writes. Those will always be the days.
- Frisbeedude ( @liam070@sopuli.xyz ) 10•5 months ago
Remember MiniDisc? The one and only true storage medium! Hail MiniDisc!
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) 7•5 months ago
IOMEGA! IOMEGA! ONE ZIP DISK TO RULE THEM ALL! ALL SHALL BOW!
But yeah. I may be nostalgic, but MiniDiscs were GOAT af, let’s be real.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 10•5 months ago
Mine was password protected and had Bulma’s boobs and incredibly confusing feelings stored on it
- LittleTarsier ( @LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca ) 8•5 months ago
Omg I’ve heard USB sticks be called “zip drives” before. I had no idea they were something entirely their own!
- darkphotonstudio ( @darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org ) 7•5 months ago
Click! Click! Click!..
- FrostyCaveman ( @FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ) 7•5 months ago
Used to see Iomega stuff advertised in PC magazines back in the day. Always wanted them but was impossible for me as a child to acquire that kind of hardware
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 5•5 months ago
They were a nice alternative to the Syquest and Bernoulli disks we were using at the time–inasmuch as they were cheaper and I didn’t need to worry if the person I was going to send a file to had a 44, 88, 135 or 270 MB SyQuest: almost everyone had a Zip drive.
…but the click-of-death hurt them, and the ubiquity of CDRs and USB thumb drives was the real end.
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 5•5 months ago
A company named “100MEGA Distribution”, a Czech computer parts vendor (incorporated in 1994) has one of these framed at the reception.
- cerement ( @cerement@slrpnk.net ) 4•5 months ago
ah, geek humor … “iomega” → “100MEGA”
- ChaoticNeutralCzech ( @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ) 5•5 months ago
No, the capacity was 100 MB, and we’d say “100 mega” [🔊 sto megga] for short in Czech.
As a computer parts & accessories store, they definitely sold these disks at some point in the 90s.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•5 months ago
Friend won a Zip drive at a computer conference and then we won a Jazz drive at the next one. He used iOmega stickers to write “Zip it” on his shirt. We used iOmega buttons to write “i Ω” across our shirts.
- don ( @don@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months ago
Fuck yes I do. I was really fortunate in that I never got the click of death, and so a straight hundo at the time was future tech now. I was using tech no one else around me understood, so it was rad as fuck for me. I miss my Zip disks.
- Chefdano3 ( @Chefdano3@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months ago
I remember the tv ad that ran for them. It was a like a Mission Impossible style data heist and a dude zipped his files to the drive and jumped out the plane before it could be hijacked or some such.
- prowess2956 ( @prowess2956@kbin.social ) 4•5 months ago
They had some really, um, 90s commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppniBSWGgcg
And another thing I haven’t worried about in close to thirty years: the Bermuda Triangle
- Rascabin ( @Rascabin@lemmy.ml ) 3•5 months ago
My college AutoCAD projects remember.
- sp3tr4l ( @sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ) 2•5 months ago
I think I used one of these things to just do a full directory copy of Civ2 and a few other games that were somehow installed on one computer in one classroom and bring them to my eMachine at home.
- sundray ( @sundray@lemmus.org ) English2•5 months ago
Remember zip drives?
Ironically, I do!
- caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 2•5 months ago
(Alt text: a photo of a yellow Famicom Disk System game disk labeled The Legend of Zelda in Japanese)