• unphazed@lemmy.world
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      I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999… it sucked)

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        Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.

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          Error: Buffer Underrun

          Frisbee time!!! Wheeee!

          This is the reason I haven’t thought too hard on bluray discs… $5 to $11 per disc…

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      Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.

      Congrats, you win! 🥳

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      I had my best porn on one of those as a youth (because it meant nothing visible on my computer unless I wanted it to be) and then the drive died one day. RIP hours of downloading, plus all my games and music on my more legit disks.