Christopher Phin still has his Iomega Zip disks, and appreciates how they let him compartmentalize projects, not to mention their delightful thunking and whirring sounds.

The Harold B. Lee Library is phasing out zip and floppy disk drives on most of its open-access computers, and library staff members are suggesting that patrons use other forms of media to save their ...

The computer treats each Zip disk as though it were a separate hard drive so you can use regular DOS, Windows or Mac Finder commands to save, open and run programs just as on a built-in hard drive.

Go with the Zip drive for two reasons. One, biggest market share. It will be supported, and is easy to find media or someone with a drive to borrow if you need to. Two, cheap and reliable media ...

Is it possible to create a DOS 6.22 (or Win98 DOS) bootable Zip disk? If so, does anyone have detailed instruction on how to do this?I have an ATAPI Zip250 drive, if that makes a difference. I'd ...

Bill Isham offers a potential solution to yesterday's report of a kernel panic when trying to mount a Zip disk. "I installed an internal 250MB Zip Drive, and would get a kernel panic whenever I ...

Remember the Zip Drive? It was a PC storage product that put a tiny company from Roy, Utah, on the map. In the mid-1990s, Iomega had been quietly building a specialized disk storage product called ...

The original Iomega disk drives connected to computers over an excruciatingly slow parallel port cable, while later versions, including the 250GB model used here, mercifully switched to USB.

Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip disk and Floptical. (2) An earlier 3.5" floppy disk developed by IBM and available on certain IBM PCs.

An earlier, low-cost, portable disk drive from Iomega. Introduced under the Clik! brand in 1999, it used floppy-like, 40MB cartridges that were half the size of a credit card and cost less than ...

Company claims the 750MB disk drive is 50 times faster than a CD-RW's read, write and rewrite speeds.