"Computer Nerd Kev"  wrote in message
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> Anssi Saari  wrote:
>> Roger Bell_West  writes:
>>
>>> On 2019-12-25, Jos Boersema wrote:
>>>>an Iomega zip drive with USB 3
>>>
>>> Really?
>>
>> Looks like there were 250 and 750 MB Zip drives with USB interface so
>> close enough.
>
> Zip 100 USB drives were made as well - still have one within reach.
>
>> However, I wonder if those were meant to be used with USB bus power only
>> though. Well, with a quick look it needs 1 A which isn't in spec for USB
>> 2 devices. So, external power needed.
>
> Mine says it only needs 0.5A. Not confident that Zip disks would
> survive better than SD cards though.

It's scary to think that there was a time when ZIP discs were the best
portable format, before USB pen drives and SD cards. They were a lot smaller
and slower than CDs, but had the advantage that the data could be
selectively overwritten, rather than gradually filling up the disc with
out-of-date copies of a file and then wiping the whole CD clean and starting
again.

I still have an old IDE ZIP 250 drive somewhere, though I copied any data
off ZIP discs long ago. I hadn't realised that the format lasted long enough
for drives to be made with USB interface.

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