It would read the SuperDisks as well as the regular disks, but not Zip disks.
Posted on 03/22/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by spintreebob
Yes. I fell for that scam too.
Yes once they both got very affordable.
Scam? Why scam?
Before Zip there was the Bernoulli disk.
http://www.obsoletemedia.org/bernoulli-disk/
Unlike the Zip disk, these were very reliable.
It would read the SuperDisks as well as the regular disks, but not Zip disks.
I don’t remember actually using mine all that much. CD burners made them obsolete after several years. I guess I must have used mine with my Win3.1 or Win95 computer. My Win98 machine had a burner.
Used them throughout college. Never had a problem with them. Even had the blue LPT port portable machine. It was a great feeling tossing out all the old 3 1/2 floppies with my assignments and engineering drawings.
Joke’s on me though. I still have CNC machines and inspection CMMs that use 3 1/2 floppies.
I thought zip disks were the greatest. Not sure why they didn’t take off.
“cheap CD-Rs CD-RWs and USB flash drives killed off the zip drive”
I know, I saw all of that happen. I think USB flash drives were the final nail in the coffin. Zip drives were a great example of technology that was everywhere and pretty well entrenched, and then it gets quickly abandoned when newer technology came on the market. Not that that is unusual.
The increased affordability of rw cd’s and rw drives.
I used them for software development projects. Keeping everything from a related project archived.
I have a bunch of Zip disks, too, and the drive as well but it’s SCSI and I don’t have anything with that interface any more.
Figures, eh?
Cheers,
Jim
I still have a few of them in my garage. (The 100MB type.)
If you pay the postage, I’ll send them to you.
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