▲ 52 ▼ Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 5 months ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se [M, B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments Comments
[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children) In college I knew exactly one person with a zip drive. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Yeah but do you know anyone with a jazz drive? Yeah. Thought so. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 point 5 months ago 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Yeah but do you know anyone with a jazz drive? Yeah. Thought so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 point 5 months ago 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 permalink fedilink source parent