Until the advent of CD writers, most people used high-capacity removable disks, such as
Zip disks, for this purpose.
During a search at his home in Elmswood Grove, Huyton, on March 27, three personal computers were seized, including one belonging to Triggle, plus
zip disks, floppy diskettes and CD roms.
In most schools, four options exist: floppy disks,
zip disks, CD-ROMs, and the school/district server.
With a remote hard disk, there is no need to carry around a floppy disk, SuperDisk,
ZIP disk, CD-ROM, DVD, or an external hard disk that contains the file(s).
There's enough information out there to fill a 250-megabyte
Zip disk each year for every person on the face of the earth.
The Winstation SCSI
ZIP Disk Drive provides the OEM with alternatives that disappeared in 1999 when Iomega decided to discontinue the Internal 100 mb SCSI Version.
Image files can be stored to a separate drive partition, on a Jaz or
Zip disk, secondary hard drive, other removable media device, or directly to an IDE, SCSI or ATAPI CD-R or CD-R/W drive.
The software allows users to view, print and install font files from any storage device, such as a CD-ROM or
Zip disk, using a Windows Explorer-like interface.
FOUR-PORT 100BASE-T HUB is smaller than a
zip disk, yet it is still a full-featured hub.
The company said Zip drive shipments in the quarter totaled 2.9 million, an increase of 23% over the prior year, while
Zip disk shipments declined 6%.
"Whatever customers use, data or film, scanned image, floppy or
ZIP disk, the HyperPhoto System has allowed us to provide them with high-quality imaging capabilities and creative freedom in a single, easy-to-use system," said Dave Cordle, vice president of Cord Camera in Columbus, Ohio.
removable disk - a hard disk that can be removed from the disk drive; removal prevents unauthorized use