• Gormadt
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      199 months ago

      Floppies were where it was at for us

      I never knew anyone with a zip disk

      • @GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
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        99 months ago

        My family had a zip drive growing up. Then again, my dad is a doctor, so our income might have had something to do with it.

        • Clay_pidgin
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          59 months ago

          I’ve got a handful of zip disks, but no drive. I asked on the town bulletin board and nobody else seems to have one I can borrow. It was a short-lived intermediate format, so I’m not surprised.

      • @vivadanang@lemm.ee
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        49 months ago

        super popular at universities and schools where stuff wouldn’t fit on 1.44mb floppies.

        they died at astonishingly fast rates, often starting the click of death after a few weeks of read/writes. fucking iomega.

    • netburnr
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      109 months ago

      Cds didn’t get the click of death like almost every zip disk did.