As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck
of a lot further than most of its competitors. It managed to improve on a
format people were used to (the old floppy) just enough that it ensured
it’d gain popularity. It fit niches for people who had to share a lot of
data. And it even had a sizable base of home users—which was impressive for
its time. But the Zip drive was a famously problematic product, and one
whose faults created big problems for Iomega. Today’s Tedium talks about
the Zip drive, along with the era of proprietary PC storage. We’re going
into some SCSI territory.

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