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Zip disks by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/27/2016, 12:41pm PST
Eurotrash wrote:

what, they didn't have a zip disk?

Actually I used to use these back around 1998-2000. Before our office started using Visual Source Safe as a version control system - and don't look at me funny, management put it in, told us to use it and I didn't know how bad it was - I used a Zip disk to back up my source code and auxiliary files related to the project I was working on. I had a portable zip drive I owned, and one of the machines in the office had one built in.

No less than three times my regular backups saved my bacon when I accidentally deleted the wrong file and I was able to restore it from the Zip disk or a zip file on the Zip disk.

I also owned one of the other ones that held a gigabyte. Not the Jaz, the other one whose name escaped me. Zips at 100 megabyte were for medium backups, the other one was for full backups.

Iomega shot itself in the foot by keeping Zip disk prices high, so other less expensive and better alternatives came along and the Zip disk went the way of the floppy.
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Too good a deal to pass up by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/23/2016, 6:48pm PST NEW
    I forgot to mention... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/23/2016, 6:52pm PST NEW
    Happy Thanksgiving, TDARCOS by Cretinous Reprobate 11/23/2016, 8:35pm PST NEW
        It's frustrating, because he won't put them on Amazon's Kindle. NT by Kenny Mayne 11/26/2016, 6:28pm PST NEW
        JAZ disc where it's at. But ya gotta upgrade to SCSI! NT by Roop 11/26/2016, 7:15pm PST NEW
    what, they didn't have a zip disk? NT by Eurotrash 11/26/2016, 12:48am PST NEW
        Zip disks by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/27/2016, 12:41pm PST NEW
            The alternate I had was a Sytquest NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 11/27/2016, 3:29pm PST NEW
                You are a fat piggy with autism. NT by just felt like being a jerk. 11/27/2016, 7:18pm PST NEW
            Re: Zip disks by Eurotrash 12/01/2016, 9:27am PST NEW
                small files and (today's) large files by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/02/2016, 8:08pm PST NEW
                    I think that was supposed to be a joke about you being a fat pig. NT by you also have autism. 12/02/2016, 10:39pm PST NEW
                        yes, it was NT by Eurotrash 12/03/2016, 10:03am PST NEW
                        Paul's a pretty nice guy, actually. You should be ashamed of yourself. by Mysterio 12/03/2016, 1:27pm PST NEW
                            You are also a fat pig with autism. NT by Autisio 12/03/2016, 5:43pm PST NEW
                            One (1) box of 'shame' by RETURN TO SENDER 12/03/2016, 11:29pm PST NEW
                    This is second to THE LOCUST FILES by Spectrum Detector 12/03/2016, 11:28pm PST NEW
                        Re: This is second to THE LOCUST FILES by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/04/2016, 3:58pm PST NEW
                            TDARCOS continues mumbling to the wall by Couldn't save that bacon 12/04/2016, 9:01pm PST NEW
                                Actually, I think Paul is onto something here, by take for example: 12/04/2016, 9:37pm PST NEW
                                    Re: Actually, I think Paul is onto something here, by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/11/2016, 10:39pm PST NEW
 
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