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Tag results: Disks

Floppy Flop

The company that gave the world the 5-and-a-quarter floppy was quickly acquired, and its founder quit on bad terms. But his follow-up firm became a computing giant.

Terrible Digital Trinkets

We did a status check on the current state of novelty USB drives so you don’t have to. (Not that we would expect you’d want to.)

An Annoying Clicking Sound

The hardware company Iomega pulled off a neat trick with its Zip disk: It was proprietary, but popular. But it was a bad thing when things started clicking.
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