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They Made a Zip Drive.. for your TV?! (youtube.com)
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In the dying days of the Zip drive, IOMEGA made one... that hooks up to your TV. Was this a good idea? Or a poorly-executed and frustrating act of desperation? Tune in to find out!

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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No tape, it was essentially just a high density/capacity floppy drive. Unfortunately for iomega it wasn't high density enough to compete with CD-R as the price of burners and media dropped.

[–] Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zip and Jazz drives had some serious data stability issues that would have sunk them anyway. I used them for school work and needed to have duplicates because it was a question of when the disk would fail, not if.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

Same with normal floppy disks. Their reliability was abysmal, as was their longevity.