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by epihelix 13 days ago
I briefly used Zip drives back in the day. They were amazing, when the only alternative portable media was a 3.5" floppy.

And then USB thumb drives came along, and made them obsolete pretty much overnight.
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SoftTalker 13 days ago
Amazing, until you got the "click of death"
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ColdStream 13 days ago
Also had a lot less worries about a random bad sector turning up with USB.
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