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Did anyone have Iomega Zip drives where they studied/worked/lived? (lemmy.ca)

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Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

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[-] zerkrazus@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Yep. I've used 5 1/4s, 3.5s, Zip, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs, BD, BD-R, BD-RW, Thumb/Flash, SD, Micro SD, and CF. The only one I can think of that I never personally used were Tapes, but I know people who did. They kind of came and went in a hurry it felt like to me.

[-] Snowyday@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same for me, but add:

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

So many Bernoulli’s

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I had never heard of those until now. 5 1/4 disk size with 230 mb sounds pretty sweet

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I use LTO8 tapes every day in 2024 lol

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

My first computer, a Commodore 64, was purchased with a tape drive because we were too broke for a 1541 5.25" disk drive.

I could start a game loading, go eat dinner, come back and it would just be getting around to being done loading.

[-] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I had a cassette drive on my TI 99/4a.

Now get off my lawn!

[-] zerkrazus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I don't even have a lawn but they need to get off the lawn still!

[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

What about optilithic data rods?

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

One of the weirder ones was Orb drives/disks.

I still have this and a zip drive in a box. I'd probably need to see if the USB to serial adapter I have works with it though.

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