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    The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity...
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    Zip's Drive In (more commonly referred to as "Zip's"), is a restaurant chain located in the Inland Northwest region of the United States. Formerly a drive-in...
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  • extension is .zip zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP Zipping (computer science), or zip, reorganizing lists of lists Zip drive, a removable disk...
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  • " drive until the click of death class action lawsuit regarding mass failures of Iomega's original Zip drives, after which it was renamed "PocketZip"....
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    whirring sound of the drive plate spinning. The phrase "click of death" originated to describe a failure mode of the Iomega ZIP drives, appearing in print...
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    The Jaz drive is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which...
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    7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed...
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    Iomega (category Hard disk drives)
    States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was...
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    Imation SuperDisk), and other forms of drives with removable magnetic media, such as the Iomega Zip drive and Jaz drives, are now largely obsolete and rarely...
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  • Sony HiFD (category Floppy disk drives)
    an internal HiFD drive as an option on some of its workstations in 2000. Its immediate competitors were the popular Iomega Zip drive, which had a capacity...
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    Floppy disk (redirect from Floppy drive)
    floppy drive Zip drive The cost of a hard disk with a controller in the mid 1980s was thousands of dollars, for capacity of 80 MB or less. "Hyper drive" was...
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    SuperDisk (redirect from SuperDisk drive)
    used in traditional floppy disk drives. Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. The idea eventually ended...
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    ATAPI (redirect from ATAPI drive)
    CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, and large-capacity floppy drives such as the Zip drive and SuperDisk drive. ATA was originally...
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  • portability for the road. The introduction of lower-cost options like the Zip drive which offered similar capacity, and later the CD-R which was much less...
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    the drives under the QuadFlextra name. In 1994, Iomega introduced the Zip drive. Although neither size (the original or the later Pocket Zip drive) conforms...
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    of 1999. The machines featured DVD-ROM drives as standard. The 400 and 450 MHz versions had 100 MB Zip drives as standard equipment, and as an option...
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    Phase-change Dual (redirect from PD drive)
    Meanwhile, MO, ZIP drive, SyQuest, etc. existed as re-writable media close to the feeling of handling floppy disks, but the advantage that the PD drive can be...
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    135 Drive – internal IDE: $200.00 The EZ 135 Drive was designed to be a competitor to the Iomega Zip drive and LS-120 SuperFloppy. The original box listed...
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    disk drive. Also, standard-floppy disk drive emulation proved to be unsuitable for certain high-capacity floppy disk drives such as Iomega Zip drives. Later...
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    to the Ditto drive. This is a feature also commonly found on an Iomega ZIP drive. Usage of the parallel port allowed for transfer speeds (in EPP mode)...
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    of constant use. Iomega's later removable-storage products such as the Zip drive and Jaz and Rev removable hard disks did not use the Bernoulli technology...
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  • the SparQ drive was launched, it was relatively cheap. Compared to the Zip drive whose 100 MB disk could cost US$22, a 1 GB SparQ disk could cost US$39...
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    additional capabilities such as a fingerprint reader, smart card reader, and Zip drive. The T61 came with the Windows Vista operating system. "Lenovo Thinkpad...
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  • GMail Drive was a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail. It allowed a user to access a virtual drive stored...
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  • from the website; users can now compress and download large Drive items into multiple 2 GB .zip files with an improved naming structure, better Google Forms...
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    protection. Other uses included optical disc drives such as CD readers and writers, Zip drives, scanners, tape drives, external modems, gamepads, and joysticks...
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    opening in the front of the case are generally used for floppy or Zip drives. Hard drives in modern computers are typically mounted in fully internal 4″...
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  • they could buy alcohol. The name dates from the 1920s. Zip City was popularized by the Drive-By Truckers song of the same name. The song was penned by...
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  • stored on SkyDrive. This entry point allowed users to add "People tags" to their photos, download photos into Windows Photo Gallery or as a ZIP file, as well...
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    Disk storage (redirect from Disk drive)
    HDDs, FDDs, and Iomega zip drives, use concentric tracks to store data. During a sequential read or write operation, after the drive accesses all the sectors...
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