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Malvineous: Category, copyediting

2016-04-17T06:44:39Z

Category, copyediting

Malvineous: Malvineous moved page ZIP to Zip disk: Match media names on drive infobox

2016-03-26T00:25:40Z

Malvineous moved page ZIP to Zip disk: Match media names on drive infobox

Anonymous Coward at 14:06, 24 May 2014

2014-05-24T14:06:14Z

Tetrium at 20:21, 26 January 2014

2014-01-26T20:21:13Z

Tetrium at 18:42, 25 January 2014

2014-01-25T18:42:35Z

Tetrium: Created page with "The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the 3.5in floppies and it's drives, though in the end none of the su..."

2014-01-25T16:14:57Z

Created page with "The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the 3.5in floppies and it's drives, though in the end none of the su..."

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The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the 3.5in floppies and it's drives, though in the end none of the superfloppies managed to do so.

The ZIP drive is incompatible with standard floppies meaning a ZIP drive couldn't read/write a standard floppy disk and vice versa.

They came in 3 different sizes
*100MB
*250MB
*750MB

Many variants of the drives were made, IDE, SCSI, parallel and USB are the most important ones.
Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with the earlier media (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).

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-The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that was supposed to succeed the 1.44mb [[3.5 inch floppy|3.5in floppies]] format. Ultimately, none of the next generation floppy formats caught on and they were replaced with first CD-R(W) and then USB flash disk media.
+The ZIP drive (known for its click-of-death) was one of the media formats that was supposed to succeed the 1.44 MB [[3.5 inch floppy|3.5" floppy]] format. Ultimately, none of the next generation floppy formats caught on and they were replaced with first CD-R(W) and then USB flash disk media.
-The ZIP drive is physically incompatible with standard floppies. A ZIP drive cant't read/write standard floppy disks and vice-versa.
+The ZIP drive is physically incompatible with standard floppies. A ZIP drive can't read/write standard floppy disks and vice-versa.
-Zip drives initially supported only 100mb disks, but later generation drives supported 250MB, 750MB formats as well. However, the larger formats never attained the same level of popularity as the original 100MB drives, mostly due to compatibility issues and damage to the brand image caused by the click of death.
+Zip drives initially supported only 100 MB disks, but later generation drives supported 250 MB and eventually 750 MB formats as well. However, the larger formats never attained the same level of popularity as the original 100 MB drives, mostly due to compatibility issues and damage to the brand image caused by the click of death.
 [[File:ZIP disk 750MB.JPG|200px|thumb||ZIP disk (750MB)]]

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-The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the [[3.5 inch floppy|3.5in floppies]] and it's drives, though in the end none of the superfloppies managed to do so.
+The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that was supposed to succeed the 1.44mb [[3.5 inch floppy|3.5in floppies]] format. Ultimately, none of the next generation floppy formats caught on and they were replaced with first CD-R(W) and then USB flash disk media.
-The ZIP drive is incompatible with standard floppies meaning a ZIP drive couldn't read/write a standard floppy disk and vice versa.
+The ZIP drive is physically incompatible with standard floppies. A ZIP drive cant't read/write standard floppy disks and vice-versa.
-They came in 3 different sizes
+Zip drives initially supported only 100mb disks, but later generation drives supported 250MB, 750MB formats as well. However, the larger formats never attained the same level of popularity as the original 100MB drives, mostly due to compatibility issues and damage to the brand image caused by the click of death.
-Many variants of the drives were made, IDE, SCSI, parallel and USB are the most important ones.
+Many variants of the ZipDrive were produced (ATAPI, SCSI, parallel and USB).
-Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with the earlier media (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).
+Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with earlier formats (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).
 [[File:ZIP disk 750MB.JPG|200px|thumb||ZIP disk (750MB)]]

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	Many variants of the drives were made, IDE, SCSI, parallel and USB are the most important ones.		Many variants of the drives were made, IDE, SCSI, parallel and USB are the most important ones.
	Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with the earlier media (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).		Like many other floppy and superfloppy drives, the later drives sometimes lost compatibility with the earlier media (notably 750MB drives being unable to read/write 100MB media).
		+	[[File:ZIP disk 750MB.JPG\|200px\|thumb\|\|ZIP disk (750MB)]]

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−	The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the 3.5in floppies and it's drives, though in the end none of the superfloppies managed to do so.	+	The ZIP drive (known for it's click-of-death) was one of the media formats that were supposedly to succeed the [[3.5 inch floppy\|3.5in floppies]] and it's drives, though in the end none of the superfloppies managed to do so.

	The ZIP drive is incompatible with standard floppies meaning a ZIP drive couldn't read/write a standard floppy disk and vice versa.		The ZIP drive is incompatible with standard floppies meaning a ZIP drive couldn't read/write a standard floppy disk and vice versa.

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