Those were some good specs back in the day... And the price 😯
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We bought a house last year from a lady who lived here with her husband since they built the house in 1972. I found an iomega zip disk in a cabinet in the garage. I had never seen anything like it before. Really cool tech for the time.
I'd kinda love to see what's on this disk. It could just be spreadsheets or maybe some copied floppies or lots of Metallica courtesy of Napster. Or some pictures of the family. No idea.
100 MB portable storage was unreal back then, and then they came out with 250MB.
Apparently you can still buy the media and drives, even a new one:
https://www.amazon.com/Iomega-Zip-100-Portable-Drive/dp/B00000J3Q7
Oh I lived it too. We were still using 1.4 MB floppy disks for school projects in '04. I think the computer class teacher finally started asking people to use flash drives in '06 or '07. I was walking around with a whole two gigs (wow!) in my pocket. I felt like a god. When we went to flash drives, we all started sharing the music we downloaded from Kazaa and Limewire with each other because now the required kit for computer class had the headroom to allow that. Many of us still lugged around CD players if we didn't have iPods but the flash drives made burning mixes for each other so much easier.
Another kid in a class below me got HEAVY into emulators. So he started telling us how to download ROMs and we'd all be playing Turok and Ocarina and Pokemon on the school computers. Being a teenager in the late 00s was a riot.
Now, my Nintendo Switch has a memory card that's smaller than my pinky nail, and it holds 200 times the capacity of those chap stick size flash drives. It's wild. I remember being amazed at the PSP in its day, thinking surely it doesn't get much better than that. I really appreciate how amazing the Switch and Steam Deck are, even if Tears of the Kingdom makes the poor little guy crap itself.
Anyway, I'll wrap up this wall of text because it reeks of millennial. But it's really cool that there's still support for old tech like this...even if it's too pricey for someone who isn't neck deep into it to consider it lol
ah, young piracy, those were the days.
If I could go back and tell my classmates we’d eventually be able to store 1TB on something the size of a microsd card, they’d say I’d lost my goddamn mind.