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Revision as of 07:41, 1 November 2012
File Formats | > | Physical File Formats | > | Disk cartridge | > | Zip disk |
- Not to be confused with ZIP, an unrelated compressed file format.
The Zip disk is a rotating magnetic storage medium housed in a hard plastic protective cassette. This "super-floppy" disk storage product came in 100 MB, 250 MB, and 750 MB capacities, and was sold from 1994 through approximately 2003.
References
- Zip Drive, Wikipedia.
- Zip Drive support pages, Iomega
- Zip Drive Mini-HOWTO: setting up and using the Iomega ZIP drive with Linux, faqs.org