Zip disk
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
- 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. Invented by the Iomega Corporation. This "super-floppy" disk storage product came in 100 MB, 250 MB, and 750 MB capacities, and was sold from 1994 through approximately 2003.
Drives and disks often had the "Click of Death", causing the loss of data or transferring issues to other disks.
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
- XFER STN (New Museum) (available to artists for converting old-format works)
- Zip Disks & Floppies: musical piece by artist who formerly used those media for storing beats
- Trouble In Paradise - Quickly diagnoses any Iomega ZIP or JAZ drives and cartridges
- Click of Death FAQ
