zip drive

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zip drive - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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://byte.com/art/9607/sec11/art1.htm)
     .
     The company has started to manufacture a larger Jaz drive,
     which takes one gigbyte disks.
  
     (http://iomega.com/index.html).
  
     (1997-03-23)