Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Pretty sure I still have the zip drive. It has a scsi connector, but pretty sure there’s a scsi card in there somewhere too. They were only popular for a small slice of time. Just like those mini tape drives with the cartridges that were about the size of a tictac container. I probably have that too.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Zip drives made sense tho.

      Just lost out to thumb drives and better Internet speeds.

      I’m still salty minidiscs didn’t take off tho. 20 years ago an iPod cost the same as a mini disc player. But it only took 2 maybe 3 discs to surpass it’s storage. And you could even use a line in to dupe a CD if you wanted.

      It wasn’t as fast as ripping, but the convenience factor was huge and compared to 56k Napster, didn’t really take that long.