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Compaq offers £160 120Mb floppy upgrade

...bandwagon is gaining momentum as Compaq said this week it now has LS-120 drives available for new and legacy desktops. The drives were previously... Read more

6 March, 1997 by Martin Veitch

A Year Ago Today: 120Mb floppy gets mobile

...amalgam of Optics Research and Insite Peripherals, two key developers of the LS-120 format. The LS-120 is already being shipped with some Compaq... Read more

25 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch

120Mb floppy camp ready to head off Zip

...last fortnight both Siemens Nixdorf and Fujitsu ICL said they will build LS-120 drives into PC ranges from April. "We believe that the LS... Read more

18 February, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Five years ago: NEC to float 120Mb floppy notebook

...NEC will become the first OEM to ship a notebook with an LS-120 120Mb floppy drive as standard when it ships its Versa 6000... Read more

18 June, 2002 by Martin Veitch

OR's 120Mb floppy to hook more notebook makers

...120Mb floppy drives at the spring CeBit show. Dalton expects that the LS-120 will eventually overtake sales of Iomega's Zip drive. "I'll... Read more

19 June, 1997 by Martin Veitch

NEC to float 120Mb floppy notebook

NEC will become the first OEM to ship a notebook with an LS-120 120Mb floppy drive as standard when it ships its Versa 6000... Read more

18 June, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Cristie joins SuperDisk 120Mb floppy crew

The 120Mb 'SuperDisk' - or LS-120 - floppy camp has received another boost with Cristie Electronics' announcement that... Read more

22 August, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Check RAM when a Windows install fails

...was finding mention of a potential problem with Windows 2000 Setup and LS-120 drives. Although this laptop had one, it wasn't being used... Read more

5 February, 2003 by Bill Detwiler

Does Zip have a future?

...trade show in late 1994, at about the same time competing technology LS-120 -- later dubbed SuperDisk -- debuted. The original Zip read 100MB removable disks... Read more

15 August, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Five years ago: 120Mb floppy camp ready to head off Zip

...last fortnight both Siemens Nixdorf and Fujitsu ICL said they will build LS-120 drives into PC ranges from April. "We believe that the LS... Read more

14 February, 2002 by Martin Veitch

Five years ago: 120MB floppy gets mobile

...amalgam of Optics Research and Insite Peripherals, two key developers of the LS-120 format. The LS-120 is already being shipped with some Compaq... Read more

25 September, 2001 by Martin Veitch

Five years ago: Compaq's super-floppy faces tough trek

...in Compaq's Deskpro 4000 business desktop line will ship with the LS-120 drive, a combination of orthodox floppy and magneto-optical technology that... Read more

15 August, 2001 by Martin Veitch

Gateway Solo 9500xl

...75 ex. VAT). The floppy drive can be swapped for a 120MB LS-120 drive if required. The Solo 9500xl's huge 15.7in. TFT... Read more

22 June, 2001 by Jonathan Bennett

Backup Exec Desktop Pro v4.5

...interface. The £54 (ex. VAT) Desktop version adds support for Zip/Jaz, LS-120, PD and DVD-RAM drives, file exclusion, password protection, unattended backup... Read more

13 February, 2001 by Phil Evans

Mesh Matrix D750 Pro

...drive, which is fair enough at this price, although a high-capacity LS-120 or a HiFD drive would be more useful. The hard disk... Read more

23 October, 2000 by Charles McLellan

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