They never got cheap enough to replace the floppy disk, but they DID make massive inroads into many sectors, particularly education. As a result, there's a large-enough installed base of Zip disks out ...

Kids today will never know the tyranny of the 1.44MB floppy disk. So traumatic was this format that today the "save" icon in our apps still looks like it, even though no one has actually used it for ...

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 ...

Moving files between computers is such an obvious thing to do now. You can use a USB flash drive. You can just email them if they're small. Cloud storage is ...

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 ...

João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always ...

The San Diego-based company, which introduced a faster, 750MB Zip drive Thursday, seems to think so. But analysts have their doubts about how much life is left in the speedy line of detachable drives.

The humble floppy disk — which, despite appearances, is rather aptly named — ruled the world of removable storage for decades. IBM began developing the technology in 1967, and the last floppy ...

Floppy disks and CD-ROMs are important holders of our archives, but reading them on modern computers is a problem.

I have a bunch of 100mb Zip disks that I read/write protected with the Iomega Zip tools on an old Win98 PC which has gone. I have just tried opening them on another XP box and it just won't have it.

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 by the ...