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'Remember These?'

Yep... Had to have a special Zip machine for them, etc.

Then came CD burning, and then DVD burning.. 4+ gigs on a single disc.





Bill
 
Yup and I still have a zip disc in my briefcase and a drive somewhere here in a box of no longer used computer parts.

I used to work as a freelance technical writer/technical illustrator and one of my customers insisted that all files were supplied on zip disc so that they could be transferred to their network and then the zip disc was returned to me. The only time I ever used it was when doing work for that one 'fussy' customer.
 
For a short while where I worked, the required storage format was on zip disks. In the land of the old 3.5 disk, the Zip disk was king. I've still got a few around here somewhere, but no way to read them anymore.
 
Talking of old technology do folks still remember the tape back-up drives? When I was the head of a publications dept. in a large engineering company I used to have to back up all the dept. hard drives to a tape drive every night. I had tapes for each day of the week, a tape for weekly back-ups and at the end of each month a major back-up was stored off-site for security. The back-ups used to run overnight so that we didn't lose production time during the day.

I can't remember the last time I saw a tape drive but it has to be at least 10 years ago. :icon_lol:
 
Tako_Kichi said:
Talking of old technology do folks still remember the tape back-up drives? When I was the head of a publications dept. in a large engineering company I used to have to back up all the dept. hard drives to a tape drive every night. I had tapes for each day of the week, a tape for weekly back-ups and at the end of each month a major back-up was stored off-site for security. The back-ups used to run overnight so that we didn't lose production time during the day.

I can't remember the last time I saw a tape drive but it has to be at least 10 years ago. :icon_lol:
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There's one in a box in my bedroom. Never had a zip drive tho'
 
Had a tape drive for my old Commodore C64 at one time. Lost track of it although I've still got the 3 5.25 floppy drives for it.
 
Ah... yes.

I still have a fully functional Iomega ZIP-750 drive and a couple dozen disks ranging from the ZIP-250 to the 750. Just don't use it any more...:pop4:

In it's day tho, it was tops.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
Then again, This:
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Is equal to
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This
 
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