I'll probably never own a drive to read those, but these are some very impressive floppy disk cartridges. Also, 20 megs in 1984 - that's more than a typical hard disk had at that time. 
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Good news everyone! I wrote up my notes about the Iomega Zip drive proprietary SCSI commands and mode pages!
These work for parallel-port drives too, as they're a SCSI drive and a parallel adapter in a trenchcoat.
philpem.me.uk - Phil Pemberton's website · Iomega Zip and Jaz drive notesIomega Zip and Jaz drive notes This is a collection of arcana on Zip drives you (might not) find anywhere else... Things I'm looking for If you have any of these documents, please drop me a line at <philpem@gmail.com>. * Iomega PPA3 Parallel Port SCSI HBA documentation
EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: A single Iomega Jaz disk. It's labeled NT 2000 JAZ, for what that's worth. 
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Iomega #Jaz
#Free to a good home: A 3.5" internal SCSI Zip drive.
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #ZipDrive #Iomega #SCSI
Yesterdays cutting edge portable media is today's social media humor post. Issues in 1998-1999 the Iomega clik! drive was a 40mb external storage option. The card was about $250 ($473 today) and the media was $10 each or $ 0.25 per MB. My OWC 2TB CF Express card was $700 or 0.00035 per MB #clik! #iomega #zipdrive #storage #computer #electronics #history
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@alterelefant @apicultor @Heidi OFC...
The only competiton so far besides #LTO and #IBM3592 is #ODA or #OpticalDiscArchive which is basically a fancy cartridge system containing 12 #bluray discs each...
- Needless to say the need for #fast and #portable storage will make the use of #SSD|s (even if just simple NOR-Flash ROMs) sooner or later unavoidable given #BDXL has been maxed out at 128 GB, HDDs are too sensitive for many scenarios (we had #iomega #Jaz & #Rev already, and #RDX exists to this day) unavoidable, as data requirements rise faster than the average internet speed.
en.wikipedia.orgOptical Disc Archive - Wikipedia
≠51 … I have seen things you wouldn’t believe …
… ribbon cables for hard drives… Master/Slave #SCSI termination… (mind screams in rebellion)… the little switch boxes to hook your original #Nintendo console or #VIC20 to a TV and then get headaches from staring at the TV CRT too closely…. a VIC-20 cassette drive with a box of about 150+ unlabeled tapes… painstakingly typed in from the listings in #BYTE magazines… Taking low-density 3.5″ floppies, and drilling/punching a hole through to double your storage and make them “high-density”…. the squeal of a modem (and trying to get the #IRQ conflicts resolved via changing jumper switches)… attempting to connect to #Datapac to try and reach unknown systems, running a #BBS inside a #DOS box, on #386(SX) #Windows 3.0 machine, Setting up your own #UUCP #internet over #dialup…
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…
The clicking of an #IOMEGA #ZIP drive, whose time it was to die…
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