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I remember drooling over zip disks when I was a kid. By the time I had enough of my own money to buy one they were clearly not the best choice anymore but I still did for the same reason around the same time I bought a stack of old sparcstations off ebay.

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I briefly used Zip drives back in the day. They were amazing, when the only alternative portable media was a 3.5" floppy.

And then USB thumb drives came along, and made them obsolete pretty much overnight.

Also had a lot less worries about a random bad sector turning up with USB.

Amazing, until you got the "click of death"

It’s funny, I had the same experience, and my stepdad told me recently that they close to buying me one, and eventually decided to just do a full upgrade of our machine instead. I’m definitely thankful we got a brand new machine instead.

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