RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 8 days agoWhy Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnightwww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 days agoIn college I knew exactly one person with a zip drive.
minus-squareMister_Hangman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoYeah but do you know anyone with a jazz drive? Yeah. Thought so.
minus-squareBorgDrone@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoI had one in college, a parallel port one. I’d bring it to college to download stuff on the fast internet connection there. Unfortunately it only worked on the Windows machines so you had to use one of the crappy PCs instead of the much nicer Sun SparcStstions
In college I knew exactly one person with a zip drive.
Yeah but do you know anyone with a jazz drive? Yeah. Thought so.
I had one in college, a parallel port one. I’d bring it to college to download stuff on the fast internet connection there.
Unfortunately it only worked on the Windows machines so you had to use one of the crappy PCs instead of the much nicer Sun SparcStstions