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Comdex: SyQuest SparQ Stalks Zip Drive
News The SparQ drive delivers 1Gb per cartridge compared to the Zip's 100Mb capacity; SyQuest said it expects UK availability in February through retail stores at about £150 for the drive and £25 per cartridge, offering a dramatic bettering of Zip's...
[November 20, 1997, 9:33]
Iomega Cuts US Zip Drive Prices
News Zip drives currently cost from about £112 + VAT on the street in the UK so a similar cut would mean a sticker price of about £83 + VAT if Iomega replicates the pricing policy here. Iomega has sold over five million Zip drives globally.
[April 1, 1997, 16:44]
Nuggets: Iomega Gets Optical With CD-RW
News Not everyone has a Zip drive -- the CD is darn near universal. Zip this. We all love those colourful, chunky Zip drives but everyone knows that CDs beat them hands down in terms of storage space and portability.
[July 1, 1999, 14:41]
SoftyBackup
Downloads Softy Backup is automated backup program to backup you files/folder in to another hard drive or network or FTP server or zip drive. Softy Backup is ZIP driven methods, this means you can restore your files using any freeware unzip program or...
[May 6, 2008, 0:01]
Does Zip Have A Future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. The low cost of CD media and CD's ubiquity compared with Zip...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Comdex: Iomega Expands Zip And Pushes PDA Storage
News At Comdex, the company showed a 250Mb version of the 'Zip' drive that has become a 19 million sales hit over the last couple of years in its original 100Mb capacity. Iomega has just begun shipping a USB version of the 100Mb Zip drive.
[November 17, 1998, 8:27]
Iomega Plans Zip For Notebooks
News Zip has already announced a 15mm internal drive aimed at expansion bays, saying it will release products in the first quarter of 1997. This is the next step towards our objective of making the Zip drive the new floppy, and to do that we need to put...
[November 7, 1996, 10:41]
Zippier Zip
Downloads Zippier Zip is a patching program that allows Zip drive owners to modify the Iomega Guest software packaged with the drive. Once patched, the Iomega Guest application will no longer display a message when the driver is successfully loaded.
[February 8, 1998, 0:16]
Nomai Says Iomega Zip Tests Weren't Fair
News Iomega recently obtained a restraining order preventing Nomai distributing its XHD cartridge aimed at Iomega's Zip drives, after claiming that the XHD could damage the drive mechanism. Responding today, Nomai said said the tests were conducted by a...
[December 8, 1997, 9:46]
Iomega Zips Into SCSI
News The new products are an internal 3.5-inch SCSI Zip drive and a PC Card connection for notebooks and laptop PCs. The 3.5-inch SCSI Zip drive (£125 + VAT) is the Zip's first venture into workstation territory.
[September 17, 1996, 17:26]
Nuggets: Zip Challenger From Datek
News Issuing a rather hopeful challenge to the likes of Iomega's Zip drive, Datek has launched a new removable media hard drive for the Mac. The Orb SCSI drive uses 3-1\2 inch removable media -- spooky similarity to Zip disks -- with a hefty 2.2GB...
[December 3, 1999, 12:08]
VIA IDE Miniport Driver (Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP)
Downloads It should only be installed on systems with a VIA chipset and: IDE Zip drive, under all Microsoft operating systems, with a 686b southbridge chip; ATA100 hard drives with Windows 2000 prior to Service pack 1; ATA133 hard drives under Windows 2000...
[July 14, 2006, 9:11]
MinuteMan Data Backup Suite
Downloads It can back up to any removable media, such as a Zip, Jaz, or floppy drive. Previous updates added the ability to ZIP up to 4GB and include or exclude files or subdirectories. Version 8.0 features unlimited zip file size, 35% faster, zip to CD-R/W...
[August 12, 2002, 14:02]
Abacre Backup
Downloads You may backup selected groups of files and folders into single compressed zip archive or using the same directory structure on any storage media: hard disk, remote FTP site on Internet, memory stick, tape, jazz, zip devise, floppy disk, network...
[September 13, 2003, 0:31]
WebWhacker EE (Education Edition)
Downloads Download favorite web pages or whole web sites directly to your own laptop, hard drive, desktop, zip disk, CD, or storage device, and then view them offline at highly accelerated speeds. Copy a Website to a Floppy or Zip Disk: A single click of the...
[August 22, 2001, 8:30]
Five Years Ago: Compaq's Super-floppy Faces Tough Trek
News Three models 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 directly competes with Iomega's wildly successful 100Mb Zip cartridge drive.
[August 15, 2001, 8:00]
A Year Ago Today: 120Mb Floppy Gets Mobile
News The 120Mb floppy camp is fighting back against the Iomega Zip hype, forecasting 10 million sales of the super-floppy drive for 1997. The LS-120 has the form factor and power requirements that have been completely overlooked by our competitors...
[September 25, 1997, 8:00]
CPPBackup
Downloads You can copy your important data files to another location on your local hard drive, network hard drive, floppy disks, zip drives, or CD-RWs. The destination zip file name may be entered manually or auto generated.
[April 3, 2007, 6:01]
Acubix PicoBackup Outlook Express Edition
Downloads Many different types of media are supported, including flash/thumb drives, Zip/Jazz drive, and floppy drive. Features: Flexible integrated scheduler, CD/DVD burning and spanning, 256-bit AES/Blowfish encryption, backup to remote FTP server...
[June 21, 2005, 13:16]
7-Zip Portable
Downloads 7-Zip Portable is the popular 7-Zip packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod...
[April 24, 2008, 22:27]
