{"id":10644,"date":"2015-02-01T18:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2015-02-01T18:39:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T23:39:19","slug":"who-else-kinda-misses-their-zip-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/who-else-kinda-misses-their-zip-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Else Kinda Misses Their Zip Disks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2875893\/think-retro-who-else-kinda-misses-zip-disks.html\">Christopher Phin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2875893\/think-retro-who-else-kinda-misses-zip-disks.html\">\n<p>\nA little over 20 years ago, however, when Iomega introduced the original 100MB Zip disk, that was staggeringly huge for a removable disk. The wildly more common 3.5-inch floppies held 1.4MB. For context, the entry-level PowerBook 150, introduced in the same year, had a 120MB hard disk, and the base configurations of even 1994&rsquo;s <em>server<\/em> Macs came with hard disks that were only five times the capacity of the Zip disk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe humble Zip disk, then, was a kind of de facto successor to the ubiquitous high-density 3.5-inch floppy. You had to buy a special drive to mount it in, because although they had about the same footprint as a regular floppy disk, they were much thicker. In fact, Zip disks had a lovely chunky, seemingly hugely robust quality compared to normal floppies.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As I recall, the novelty wasn&rsquo;t that the Zip disk was huge in capacity. In that respect, it was similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SyQuest_Technology\">SyQuest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernoulli_Box\">Bernoulli<\/a> removable disks of the day. What was special was that Zip disks were physically smaller and much cheaper. And, in spite of the &ldquo;click of death,&rdquo; I recall them being more reliable than their 88 MB SyQuest predecessors and their 1 GB Jaz successors.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Phin: A little over 20 years ago, however, when Iomega introduced the original 100MB Zip disk, that was staggeringly huge for a removable disk. The wildly more common 3.5-inch floppies held 1.4MB. For context, the entry-level PowerBook 150, introduced in the same year, had a 120MB hard disk, and the base configurations of even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,295,1129,30,174],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-history","tag-iomega","tag-mac","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10645,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions\/10645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}