[Redleg Duke]

Actually, it was 3.5” floppy, a tremendoun improvement over the 5 1/4” floppy.

The Zip Drive followed, but read/write CDs killed it.

[Yo-Yo]

From the article:

No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch.

[ShadowAce]

You got trapped again by not reading the article :)

[bigbob]

Reading comprehension.

[Blue Highway]

I remember getting my first PC in December of 1996. I was seduced by the then new technologies of super floppys. I hemmed and hawed but never bought one but I lusted after those Imation LS-120 Super Drives and the Caleb iT 144 drives. They were theoretically superior to the ZIP drives at the time but the market was already saturated with Iomega products. I did invest in the SyQuest drives which WERE superior to the ZIP or JAZZ drives by Iomega. The SyJet discs held 1.5GB each which then was massive! The Iomega Jazz only held 1gb.

I also later on in the later 90s or early 2000s bought a couple of those Castlewood Orb drives on eBay as those cartridges held 2.2gb.