Zip Drive
<hardware, storage> A
disk drive from
Iomega Corporation which takes removable 100
megabyte hard disks.
Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for
backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers.
Software is included to help with file organisation.
The internal
SCSI model offers up to 60 MB / minute transfer rate.
The Zip drive was awarded
Byte's Readers' Hardware Choice Award 1996 (http://www.byte.com/art/9607/sec11/art1.htm). The company has started to manufacture a larger
Jaz drive, which takes one gigbyte disks.
Home (http://www.iomega.com/index.html).
