2026-04-20 04:25 UTC
I had a zip drive on my computer at the time, which I used for backups. It was great!
Until I had the click of death. Then I dropped zip drives. I think I burned a monthly CDR for backups until I eventually got a USB flash drive.
https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/
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@fluidlogic@oldbytes.space 2026-04-20 11:16
@freedosproject@fosstodon.org I used a Zip drive (over parallel!) for a while, but never trusted it from the day I bought it. Even back then, talk of "the click of death" was ubiquitous.