In a market that evolves as quickly as this one, it's interesting to realize how many interesting inventions have been lost to time over the years, many of which we may never even have heard of. Today ...

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 cartridge ...

When I was in college, Zip drives were the big thing. All of the computers in the English lab (Mac OS 9 systems) had zip drives, all of the NT 4 workstations in the CS labs had Zip drives, and even my ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who doesn’t love a Zip drive? With their sweet 100MB of magnetic memory, they used to save my ass back in the day. (My Performa 6400 even had an internal Zip drive.) And who doesn’t love a marionette?

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 ...

In the face of stiff competition from optical media and compact high-speed hard drives, Iomega Corp. today announced the third generation of its Zip technology with the release of the Zip 750MB drive.

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 ...

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 cartridge ...