It would read the SuperDisks as well as the regular disks, but not Zip disks.
Posted on 03/22/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by spintreebob
. . . In case you don’t remember, or are too young to remember, Zip disks and drives were developed by Iomega in 1994. They were a similar size to floppy disks – thicker – but held considerably more data; they started at 100 MB and eventually went up to 750 MB. (Which, in those days, was a lot.) Another interesting distinction about them is that they could be used for either PCs or Apple computers.
Several of the major voting machines used back in the day, such as the ESS Model 650 Central Scanner, used Zip disks. And a number of the counties that considered themselves cutting-edge now have to deal with the ancient technology. . . . .
2002 was a big year for acquiring voting machines in the wake of the 2000 “hanging chad” problem. “The 2002 Help America Vote Act provided $4 billion to states, but that money is largely gone,” Rauf writes. “With many state legislatures unwilling to allocate funding, election officials are left scrambling to make do.”
For example, 43 states used machines that were at least a decade old and nearing the end of their lifespans during November’s presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, Rauf writes. “Election officials in a least 31 states want to purchase new voting machines in the coming years, according to a 2015 report from the center. Most, however, don’t know where they’ll get the money
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Yes. I fell for that scam too.
Yes once they both got very affordable.
Scam? Why scam?
Before Zip there was the Bernoulli disk.
http://www.obsoletemedia.org/bernoulli-disk/
Unlike the Zip disk, these were very reliable.
It would read the SuperDisks as well as the regular disks, but not Zip disks.
I don’t remember actually using mine all that much. CD burners made them obsolete after several years. I guess I must have used mine with my Win3.1 or Win95 computer. My Win98 machine had a burner.
Used them throughout college. Never had a problem with them. Even had the blue LPT port portable machine. It was a great feeling tossing out all the old 3 1/2 floppies with my assignments and engineering drawings.
Joke’s on me though. I still have CNC machines and inspection CMMs that use 3 1/2 floppies.
I thought zip disks were the greatest. Not sure why they didn’t take off.
“cheap CD-Rs CD-RWs and USB flash drives killed off the zip drive”
I know, I saw all of that happen. I think USB flash drives were the final nail in the coffin. Zip drives were a great example of technology that was everywhere and pretty well entrenched, and then it gets quickly abandoned when newer technology came on the market. Not that that is unusual.
The increased affordability of rw cd’s and rw drives.
I used them for software development projects. Keeping everything from a related project archived.
I have a bunch of Zip disks, too, and the drive as well but it’s SCSI and I don’t have anything with that interface any more.
Figures, eh?
Cheers,
Jim
I still have a few of them in my garage. (The 100MB type.)
If you pay the postage, I’ll send them to you.
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