It's Friday afternoon, and I'm happily surfing around and I happen to come upon a brief article about the ZipDisk. Remember those? Back when 100MB was a lot of portable storage and CD burners were a future development I used a Zip drive to back up W98 on my gigantic 4GB hard drive on my Compaq computer.
Unfortunately, Zip drives often developed the infamous "click of death" wherein a drive would destroy 100MB of data on a ZipDisk in a fraction of a second. And then cheap CD and later DVD burners arrived. Now Zip is but a fond memory of years gone by. I guess the young whippersnappers on this board won't have a clue what I'm talking about. Innocence of youth and all that.
Ironically, the ZipDisk shows up on PCWorld's 2006 "Worst Tech Products of all time" list (15th) and a year later on their "Best Tech Products of all time" (23rd). Which brings up a whole list of other products that I can reminisce about. But first I'd better refill my beverage container.
Unfortunately, Zip drives often developed the infamous "click of death" wherein a drive would destroy 100MB of data on a ZipDisk in a fraction of a second. And then cheap CD and later DVD burners arrived. Now Zip is but a fond memory of years gone by. I guess the young whippersnappers on this board won't have a clue what I'm talking about. Innocence of youth and all that.
Ironically, the ZipDisk shows up on PCWorld's 2006 "Worst Tech Products of all time" list (15th) and a year later on their "Best Tech Products of all time" (23rd). Which brings up a whole list of other products that I can reminisce about. But first I'd better refill my beverage container.