Disk, storage
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- OBJECT TYPE
- ZIP/100 MB/REMOVABLE
- DATE
- 1996
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0004.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Iomega Corp.
- MODEL
- ZIP 100
- LOCATION
- Roy, Utah, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 6K1116
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- SYNTHETIC & METAL DISK/ SYNTHETIC CASE WITH PAPER LINER
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 10.6 cm
- Width
- 10.3 cm
- Height
- 1.3 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Iomega
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Utah
- City
- Roy
Context
- Country
- North America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- UNUSED: APPEARED 1994, SUPERCEDED 1996
- Canada
-
AMERICAN MADE DATA STORAGE DISK OF TYPE USED IN CANADA & ELSEWHERE. ZIP DISK DRIVE (& DISK) MADE MAJOR IMPACT IN COMPUTERIZED PUBLISHING & GRAPHICS CIRCLES. RAPID INCREASE IN SIZE OF FILES, ESP. THOSE WITH GRAPHIC IMAGES FOR PUBLISHING, REQUIRED NEW, MORE CONVENIENT METHOD OF DATA TRANSFER.ZIP DRIVE WAS OVERNIGHT SUCCESS. - Function
-
HIGH DENSITY REMOVABLE DISK USED TO STORE & TRANSFER LARGE COMPUTER FILES. IT HOLDS 100 MB OF DATA & WHEN PURCHASED WAS INITIALIZED FOR PCS, BUT COULD BE REFORMATTED FOR MACINTOSH COMPUTERS. PREFORMATTED VERSION FOR MAC COMPUTERS COULD ALSO BE PURCHASED. - Technical
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APPEARING IN 1994/95, ZIP DRIVE & ITS 100 MB DISKS WERE MAJOR IMPROVEMENT IN REMOVABLE DATA STORAGE. IT WAS ADVANCEMENT ON HIGH DENSITY (1.4 MB) FLOPPY DRIVES IN USE SINCE 1987 & WAS DIRECT COMPETITOR WITH SYQUEST DRIVE, PREVIOUS STANDARD (SEE 970005). IN MID 1996 IOMEGA RELEASED SUCCESSOR TO ZIP, IOMEGA JAZ DRIVE WITH 1 GB DISKS. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- BLACK & WHITE LETTERING ON DISK DRIVE LABEL READING "zip 100 1 (TM)/ 100/ iomega"/ INCISED LETTERING ON DISK BACK READS "(C) Iomega 1994 patented and patents pending" & "6K1115"/ RED, WHITE, & BLACK LETTERING ON LINER READING IN PART "iomega (R) zip 100 disk/ Formatted/ for IBM-/ compatibles/ 1 (TM)/ iomega/ 100MB disk for use with Zip (TM) drive" ON FRONT, & ON BACK "Assembled in Taiwan" & "Iomega Corporation, 1821 West/ Iomega Way, Roy, Utah 84067"
- Missing
- COMPLETE
- Finish
- DARK GREY DISK WITH BRUSHED METAL PARTS, BLUE, WHITE, RED, & BLACK LABEL/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT CASE/ PRIMARILY PURPLE LINER WITH MULTICOLOURED MARKINGS
- Decoration
- GREY MARKS RESEMBLING DOODLING ON DISK LABEL, REPRESENTING EYE, HAND, CURLED ARROW
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Iomega Corp., Disk, storage, 1996, Artifact no. 1997.0004, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0004.001/
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