LOL

I got one at 18. Not sure how.

i found one in my garage

not sure how far your gonna get with purchasing it new at RSP

I hear that they’re going to replace 3.5 floppies 😊

Yep, same in the printing industry. Pretty much up until the mid 2000's, ZIP drives were common for graphic artists bringing in files, or for moving files to and from older systems that didn't have network capabilities, such as imagesetters. It wasn't until the late 2000's when USB drives finally came down in price that we were able to phase them out completely. Of course, everything today is networked together, and everything external come from LFT off the internet. I think once in the last 3 years, a very old-school artist came in with files on a ZIP drive. Luckily, I still keep one around that works! 😆

I studied graphic design in 1999 and these were a life saver.

Yep, they replaced SyQuests pretty quickly.

Yes (working) drives where harmed during the marking of this episode...

Exactly, hardly forgotten.

Good times until the Click of Death and I lost a lot of projects. Ended up having to use two disks to save to; one as a backup

This bring back memories. I started art school in 1999, had a few of these in different colours for different things (can’t remember now, different projects? Different classes?). Those PowerMac G3 at school all had internal zip drive, and because those PowerMac G3 has its own translucent green case if you remember those, I’m sure they had it custom ordered from Apple as the zip drive has the official green translucent cover! I also end up bought that internal drive for reading them at home. I had forgotten about that internal drive until this video popped into my recommendation!

@@OutdoorsWithShawn until they got ruined by the same defective drive... You lucked out :)

@@OutdoorsWithShawn That’s why you should *always* backup, backcup and backup. :) Enough scare stories about people losing book manuscripts or master thesises due to the harddisk dying or the computer getting stolen.

@@cieludbjrg4706 this was before it was well known about the click of death. Once we knee more about it, we had back ups.

Kind of like Pokemon cards except you felt cooler with those disks!

Damn I miss those times. I remember feeling so jealous when they first came out and a 3.5 1.2MB drive was the best drive I had. When I finally bought one I went crazy copying all sorts of programs, files, games, music. Then again WAV files were ridiculously large. Learned the hard way about the eject button when it shot out and spilled my soda can over me.

I had completely forgotten about the eject button!

@@VideoCesar07 Are you sure it was a 3.5" Floppy? The old 5 1/4" disks went up to 1.2 MB in high density mode. the 3.5's did 1.44MB in high density mode, and they did a 2.88MB drive in that size too, but I think it was expensive, and didn't gain traction. I remember using programs back in the day to do custom formats to disks, which increased the capacity, and sometimes let you use a couple of extra tracks (80-82,83), and more sectors per track to squeeze more data in. It was drive and media dependent, but you could usually squeeze a little more data in. I think I got up to 1.5MB in some cases on 5 1/4 disks.

@@lesleymunro4964 I stand corrected. It's been sooooooo long. Your numbers are correct. When the 3.5s came out it was a great jump forward to the 2.88 capacity but still a bit hindered...until I discovered zip files and later on, the ability to split them into multiple smaller files. Crazy to think that today a multi-gig file can be shared via broadband when a 10MB file was considered large at the time. Now I feel I missed out since I never got to use the custom formats.

I forgot the force those drives would eject with. They would spit clean out of the drive!

Ouch.

Having worked in the same field at the same time, I suspect that many of the "contagious" damage was thanks to people attempting to repair their cod disks. Broken hinges, stuff shoved into the case to "clean" the heads, the myth that you could fix it with a sharp rap against the edge of the table... Of course, they never would admit it, but we knew, we knew...

I literally just encountered the click of death and bad disk killing zip drives problem this past week! I had used zip disks to backup my high school files in the mid 90s. I recently found the disks again but didn't have the drive. So I bought a used zip drive usb. I was able to recover one disk, but then it couldn't read one of the other disks. Strangely, I found that the same drive suddenly couldn't re-read the first disk it had successfully read. So I thought the used zip drive had suddenly crapped out. So then I decided to go on eBay and buy a new in box zip 100 usb drive. The good disk read no problem. Once i got to the second disk however, the drive couldn't read it, and then failed to read the good disk also. There was an obvious clicking noise coming from both the used and new drives. A Google search later, I discovered the click of death and bad disks killing good drives issue which I hadn't known about. So I had just wasted two good zip drives just trying to recover my high school data with no success. Argh! Anyway, awesome episode of LGR Oddware as usual, Clint!

@@anobservr I wonder if data recovery services could save your data to a hard drive or USB Flash Drive?

I never buy from Craig's List. They've earned a really bad reputation. If you couldn't sell 'em you could've donated them to a computer tech museum (like the one in Boston), Good Will or other thrift store, etc. Such a waste to throw out old tech like that.

@@SlowPCGaming1 Considering how much sh!t I saved on Iomega Zip disks in college, I have to agree with this. I don't know about Bernoulli, but had Rick Kaylor sold his surplus Zip disks and drives (if brand new) on eBay rather than craigslist, he would have made a bundle. There are still many eBay listings for Zip disks and drives today, and while I couldn't care less about the 100 or 250 mb models, the harder to find 750 mb model is still useful, yet backwards compatible with the smaller capacity disks. I was editor of my college newspaper, and delivered the finished product to the on-campus printing press via Zip disk. This KZfaqr decided not to review Iomega Jaz drives, but the media on those could store 1 GB and 2 GB disks, and all the commercial art students swore by them. 💁🏻‍♂️💾 🏆

@@TuNnL I remember the Jaz drives. I used to use those at work at the time. 1 GB on a disk was like "wow", considering my computer at the time only had about 750 meg hard drive. Anybody remember the SyJet drives that SyQuest put out around the same time? Those held about 1.5 GB. I still have one and at least 2 disks (maybe three). I will have to dig that thing out and see if it still works.

Grumbel Although the total free storage space has increased significantly. I seem to remember Hotmail only allowed 20MB email storage for your whole inbox unless you upgraded to a paid plan.

Democritus86 But that reasoning was made all the more redundant when those same providers launched their cloud storage services, and even give you the option to provide a sharing link to, for example, a OneDrive or Google Drive file, whilst composing an email.

Though I'd argue though that email shouldn't really be used for file transfer anyway. That's what things like FTP and WebDAV are meant for.

That's because of all the dingbats that insist on just leaving files attached to emails for some nebulous later date. I've watched email space be increased and decreased repeatedly over the last 20 years.

Email is not designed nor supposed to do that. HTML email is bad enough.

click click click click

Rudofaux hahahah fr

I still have mine too! kept all the backups on these

Still got my ZIP 100 drive in a carrycase designed for the drive, powersupply, cable and 3 discs.

My parents have had one, lovingly stored in its original box in a closet for the last 20 years, that my Dad is still pissed off about buying and every now and then mentions like it's still a relevant technology. Case in point, last summer when I told them to get a 5TB USB drive to back up all of their machines. Dad asked why he couldn't use "that drive thing you made me buy" to do it... Pretty much every time something better came along I have had to explain why it was no longer relevant. USB sticks, flash cards, CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, USB hard drives, BD-Rs, etc, etc... Dad is still holding on to the dream and still pissed about the $200 that only was viable for about 2 years.

Just A Man Yesbody a Bernie Bro company

My Zip drive would have been worth having if the backup disk hadn't somehow corrupted itself almost instantly, in safe storage & with almost zero use lol

@@MegaZeta I backed up after every time I finished entering data on a daily basis. I backing it up twice on two different discs. I also replaced the discs after a year of use. Never had one fail. Ironically, my first flash drive took a lot of personal data with it when it decided it was no longer formatted on the short side of being a year old. It was "solid state" I thought all these original single copies will be safe. Bad idea.🤦‍♂️

There were other backup options, it wasnt the zip drive that saved your data, it was the backup media.

@@pflaffik If it was on a Zip Drive, then in fact it's the Zip Drive that held the data. The fact is I restored my data from a Zip Drive. The fact of how you're backing up data has nothing to do with the fact it is important to back up data. The reality is a Zip Drive served me well. Thanks for your circular logic that serves no one for anything.

Yeah that was pretty neat.

Was epic! Top work Clint!

It was so seamless that I didn't even notice it haha

I thought that was pretty slick myself! Immediately scrolled down into the comments when I saw that lol.

Interesting. I remember reading that Fitch did a lot of design work for iomega, but I couldn't find much more info about it.

FuYing Bro well it was crap all of ours and friends broke ripp off

Shadow Heart​ oh I am sure it was. I mean yea I was a programmer at the time and was making my own games, and I was also taking engineering work with cad, but they came to our marketing class to figure out a case design. I mean who the hell does that. They were not the only company. Coke came to us on testing their new plastic bottle design. And some other company came to us for repurposing and building block design that was found to be a major chocking hazard. We were in marketing, not design. It was insanity.

I would personally like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping bring this into the world. Without you I might have had to store my early internet downloaded porn on thousands of floppy disks! But thanks to you 3 years worth of porn fit on 1 disk! Because back then there was literally only 100 megs of porn online! lol

Phoenixesper1 all I did was help with with what the end product would look like

MilanorTSW200 It just seems that it copied already but keeps copying in the backround

Replying to give this more weight with the algorithm

Thank you! Finally I can back up my porn with more regularity

@@MisterRorschach90 p sure that was a joke and u just got r/wooooshed

That software enabled full use of Bi-directional function on ports that supported the protocol, not all did.

@EJ Taylor Which reminds me to play the Ezio Trilogy again. ;)

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It's so irritating that Apple never included anything higher than 100 mb in their internal Zip drives, though. Had the PowerMacs offered that, I might have had a reason to buy it rather than a MacBook Pro, which died on me after just seven and a half years. In the post-pandemic era, I'm at the point where a 2010-12 Mac Pro desktop actually makes more sense from a value standpoint than buying a whole new MacBook Pro. Other than 100 mb and 250 mb, I couldn't find any NIB internal Iomega internal drives online, so if I get one for nostalgia it will have to be external. 💁🏻‍♂️💾

Maybe just be very late, or cause an international incident.

I have two 100mb scsi zips for my classic macs and not a single click of death

lol same|! I was in animation school and we used them during my degree (4 years) but right after I graduated, the school had dropped them

I went to F. I. T. for illustration, i thought i was going to become a comic artist. i dropped out after a teacher stole my friends assignment for an ad campaign. shortly after another friend who "Made it" confided in me after her gallery showing in Manhattan that she just wanted to marry someone and buy curtains and salad bowls all day ... heartbroken i became a manager at a hardware store and now I'm a stay at home dad. wahmp wahmp but i wouldn't change a thing

Pretty much the same here. The local university (which I later attended) installed them in 1996 and I used to cruise over there to download warez out of my T3 shell account and take them back home. When I started attending that school in 1999 most of the labs had discontinued them and by 2000 they were flat out gone entirely. Weirdly enough, floppy disks remained supported through the rest of my degree program, which I completed in 2006.

+WritersOnTheWall That teacher is shady as fuck. Damn... some people really don't have shame. Yes making a good living out of freelance illustration is extremely though, not many people make it and it's not for everyone either

Lol, same as the rest here! We were all required to have zip disks for our art class photoshop projects back in the late 90s.. I liked them for what they did back then.

As someone that works in the printing industry. I can confirm this

When I read "I'm a former printer" I wondered if your comment was a story about how you evolved into an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax/copier over time or something.

@Max William Lauf I can confirm this also, it was the format we used as the disk were cheaper to ship than other media at the time and it was quick (relatively) to get data onto and off them. We had a kid that would run the disks between the studio and print house all day long, just running disks back and fourth.

A former printer? What did you run out of ink? 😂😂😂

As a graphic design student in the early 2000s these were a regular staple. $30 for 3 disks as opposed to $30 for a 128 mb usb flash drive.

That was the shock of a lifetime when our company bought the first batch or 750MB drives. No one imagined they'd not be backwards compatible.

Then I found out that my backup that I placed on ZIP drive discs could not be read when I changed computers and the newer 750 drive.. 22 Paper weight discs.

I think that was a big cause of their downfall

@@romulusnr I think by the 750, it was already all over but the crying 😎

@@nucflashevent There was likely no way to save it at that point, but basic backwards compatibility would have given them a few more years of viability. In the long run, nothing much; but it expedited the demise.

I'm afraid to watch the video based on some of the corrections people are posting. Sad

Yeah me too, I buyed scsi card specially for the Zip drive hoping it would be faster and better, idiot of me spending more money to throw it to the trash years later having given so little use

SCSI was this strange, pro technology that was too good for the likes of us meagre IDE users.

@@FatNorthernBigot - SCSI (at the peak, I had two SCSI adapters in the one CBM A2000 060) enabled me to run some 4-to-6 HDDs, plus a SCSI H.P. Scanjet 4c. I usually had either a tower case for the extra drives, or an old Honeywell-Bull 386 case, with the HD access lamps made visible by drilling small holes through the case front panel, and pushing in plastic bezels. Each drive required setting a separate ID Address by jumpers.

Same here, used it for backups until a 100 count cake box of CD-Rs dropped to $20 and the burners were stable at 40x speed...then the ZIP disks were bye bye. But glad to see you showing the Akai MPC-3000 which had SCSI on it to expand sample storage and off load sequences.

i found this difficult to watch because he kept speaking in a derisive tone about zip disks, sort of like they were a useless fad or something

Bought a Mac G4 (Sawtooth) with the internal Zip drive pre-installed from Apple (probably 2000). At some point I should really make a point of checking out what files I stored on those disks.

I used to have a ton of 100 and 250mb zip disks and eventually most of them stopped being able to be read by both the built-in and the external zip drive i had. not sure if all the disks failed or both drives failed, but there were certainly some quality issues.

Same. Our family Compaq Presario computer had an internal zip drive. Each member of the family had their own zip100 disk to put whatever he wanted on it. That was a lot of storage space in 1998!

BvousBrainSystems haha same

Thanks for combining 2 things from my childhood into a single comment

And cheaper writeble CD's

Somethings are best kept off cloud. USB won't go away. Atleast I hope not.

Not really, USB and plug-n-play made the Zip drive better. Mostly made obsolete by cheaper & more reliable CD-R, larger & cheaper hard disks, and increasing use of networking/internet/e-mail for file transfer. Flash memory sticks were more the last nail in the coffin. When these first came out they were really a godsend.

Definitely wasn’t USB that killed it. It made it way better.

Ion-SHIVs Yes change to browse picture

What a bummer. I liked going in and seeing some old stereos and keyboards and monitors and such. :(

I thought one of my local thrift outlets was lame till one day it got stocked with LOADS of electronics, like they were spilling into the floor. Never saw so many LCD monitors there, but they were not something I need at the time

They just downed the electrics isle at my local one by a lot and replaced it with blanket and sheets isle.

I saw a Mac G4 tower at a second hand story one time. They were selling it for one hundred dollars I was tempted.

I recently moved and my parents were deciding on two homes and my dad made the final choice on the one im in now simply because it's goodwill had better stuff. He figured that the niceness of the things that are donated show how good the neighborhood is

When I was in community college, I edited the school newspaper and operated out of a "student media group." We oddly had a position called "systems administrator" as in the mid to late 1990s, there were apparently still a shocking number of computer illiterate students (including the editor-in-chief I replaced). That systems admin guy apparently was used to this idea, and had been hoarding zip disks to store all of his porn collection. Me and Cynthia, my photographer were an ambitious team burning through these disks fast, and when we started running low, we ransacked the place looking for the surplus. Low and behold, we found stacks of unlabeled disks. And when we tested them out, they all had folders named "A," "B," "C," and all the way down the alphabet. The letters represented all porn images and videos which had names beginning with "A," or "B" or "C," etc. Needless to say, there were only just over a dozen Zip disks, but we later found out the guy had the rest of them at home for "evaluation purposes." 👏🍆 💦

@@TuNnL Based.

You could have made some dough selling disks in school!

Hit and miss is RIGHT! I remember when we got our first cd burner; my brother was copying pictures for a friend, and when I walked in the room he winced a little, "Don't stomp around so much, I'm burning a disk."

Yup! I remember making a lot of coasters when burners first came out. Using a burner in college, the blanks (in the college book store) were 14.99 each. I remember, because I also remember writing the disk in 2x, and thinking "good god.. can it go that fast without making another coaster?! 15 freaking bucks here!"

Dont mean to be a grammar nazi but it is disc not disk.

Astro Gamer to the Rescue! Thank you so much! When I typed the comment i thought to myself "Crap, is it disc or disk? Whatever, I got a 50/50 shot and if it's wrong I'm sure someone will call me out on it"

Yeah disc means cd and dvd while disk means floppy disk and hard disk.

You are my kind of a person ❤

PhilsComputerLab I

SCSI for the win (of the original two models). Several friends and I all bought Zip drives when they first came out, but for some reason they got the parallel ones... one buddy quickly realized his mistake and swapped it for the SCSI version while the store still would let him. The difference between the two models, especially back, then was truly astonishing. The parallel port one behaved as an awesome tape backup drive should have (without all of the whirring noises, rewinding and tensioning the tape, etc lmao those things sucked so much) but was too slow to use as a hard disk. The SCSI one was a baby hard disk. I spent most of my time on Sun Unix and Dos/Windoze back then, but quite a bit on Mac too doing scanning work and similar. All of those PowerPC Macs they had on campus at the time were running a few OS versions behind the current, and also had Extensions up the wazoo loading on boot. The neat thing was they all had a SCSI port on the back, so I could just plug in. They even had a few Zip drives in the lab too, but I had my own so that lived in a little carrying case with room for my important dozen or so disks, the brick and the SCSI cord. So I set up a few Zip disks as Mac-boot drives; you just reboot the Mac and hold down a funny four button combo and it forced the machine to boot from external SCSI devices... so I would be sitting there in the lab running the most up to date OS version with only the extensions I needed loaded - using RamDoubler and all sorts of fun tools - and still had access to the Lab server so I could use PhotoShop and the other toys; I could mount my Aufs volume (data stored on my unix account) too for fun and games. Let me also say... Marathon came out around then ^^ muhahaha. Zip disk (SCSI) was amazing. But hey, even the slow parallel port one was pretty sweet!

Don't copy that floppy! 😋

Back when piracy was really fucking easy. Good times.

heh, heh. Reminds me, around 2004 I was at Wal-mart buying a 500 gig external hard drive and a new 500 gig internal hard drive and the kid working the cash register was clearly from some deep African country and he was amazed at how much storage was suddenly available (well, so was I) so cheaply and he says to me, "Why you need so much space?" and I looked right at him and said (duh) "Porn!" and for a second he looked at me in shock and then threw his head back and began laughing and I thought it was funny because he was probably brought to America by some Christian church and maybe he actually thought I was kidding...

Ha, I guess I was lucky, porn has never aroused me (just seemed too artificial and aggressive), so I had no reason to fill my precious megabytes with that stuff.

Check out amateur porn.

Have tried, it just does not work when I know that they are doing that for each other and not for me nor with me; and the fact that they are doing it for others to watch causes even some repulsion. I get reaction only when a girl looks into my eyes and clearly shows that she wants me and nobody else, and only when I know that she really means it and is not saying it just out of habit. Also, typical "sexy looks" do not work on me; I enjoy petite, quiet and simple looking girls who definitely are far from top-models. I guess, I'm demisexual :D But that's total off-topic here :D

They actually went up to 1GB sizes back when Zip Disks (brand name) were only hitting 256mb, I use to have eight of the 1GB disks which was hilarious because at the time was more than my 4GB Hard drive at the time which was one of the biggest in 1997

I would do that by myself, just to be safe

hopefully the disks won't self-destruct

Curious to know how this worked out. My experience with Zip drives, albeit as a very early adopter, was that the disks constantly corrupted themselves via cosmic rays or something, meaning, while in safe storage with little use

@@MegaZeta LOL Very true. I completely forgot about this. Never did find any of my old disks.

How dare you click. HOW DARE YOU!

Is exact problems with the hard drives a click of death is a big trouble

The drives were not very reliable, but the disks actually were - compared to floppy disks.

They had a class action lawsuit over the click of death

that would have been neat in a way it happened with the 64DD although that was a different technology manufacturer and bombed like crazy

the point is the games didn't need more than 8MB. And have you seen the state of some of the cartridges? kids dont look after their stuff, i trade a few games and sometimes they were scuffed up and dirty, a zipdisk wouldn't be able to put up with the abuse.the metal cover would be destroyed in a week of buying.

@@Professional_KZfaq_Commenter They lost the Final fantasy series because they kept the 8 mb cartridge. It wasn't the only one, From what I could understand.

''You know things are bad when your hot HD disc drive, Red Ring of Death is being compared to the Click of Death''

@@SImrobert2001 "you kids got that final fantasy on zip drive?"

that would be really interesting and useful.

+Zes Although it's probably not what you want, but you might wanna buy a cheap (10 bucks or so) USB-floppy drive and use a floppy imager (eg WinImage or Floppy Image) to create 1.44 mb images from every floppy. So you have a bit-perfect backup up of your stuff that you can eg burn to DVD. The images are portable and can be read independent of any hardware, just in case your hardware breaks down.

Have you seen a USB 5¼-inch drive anywhere, because I sure haven't. Also this is hardly going to help with my 1986 DOS computer. Also I'm pretty sure you can't make copies of Amiga disks with a regular USB disk drive because Amiga formatted disks are weird and don't work with PCs, like, at all.

I'd like to see him make a video where he talks properly but that wood reeqire hin to be sober and stop commuting sodomy with the soldering iron. .

Jake Brake I remember in my art school, there was that one zip drive that eject harder than normal, not only the disk would got shot out some distance, the recoil so strong the whole drive itself knocked backward an inch!

Lok Cheung that is so awesome! Never had a Zip drive that did it that hard. There was one that would “fully” eject a disc if it was vertical.

Kids today will never know the fun of installing an entire operating system from floppies.

@Dave Shaffer Worst Walkman mixtape ever.

Kids today don't understand the pain of installing Windows 10 on 2,778 floppy disks.

Or unzipping Starcraft from 65 floppies, reaching disk #36 and getting crc error. Hours wasted.

And i thought it was bad when i got gta on 7 dvds. Took me like 4 hours with a usb2 dvd drive

It was cool hardware, i would have killed for one of those, but i was too young and no way my parents will spend 200 + bucks on that thing.

We love you CS!

Why in the fuck is cs188 here?

I should imagine they _were_ a godsend with the amount of data teachers have to move around

Never knew that cs watched LGR. I guess now it's canon!?

I mean, the CD-R existed, and they had a 700 MB storage space, so...

@@karfsma778 Those were write once media. During the peak of the 100mb's popularity, CD-RW drives were expensive and kinda rare. They were also a lot slower than zip drives.

Oh please, KZfaq has been obsolete since it was purchased by Google.

@@dr.insaneoiv You know that you're watching this _on_ KZfaq, right? That it is still, by a _huge_ margin, the most popular vidoe site on the Internet, right? It will become obsolete, and it is likely already headed that way now (spurred in no small part by poor decisions and advertisers-first business strategies from KZfaq management and Google above them), but it is far from obsolete now.

I was so proud of my zip drive at the time. Used it to download roms for neogeo at the university.

I recall spending $100 for a CD burner. As soon as I plugged it in there was a firmware update that bricked it.

porklaser What, you mean unlike the days of Aldus on a Mac SE where you did page layout, printed out all the pieces on 8.5x11, glued them together, proofread from that/sent that along with the file for printing, and hoped it came out alright? And let's not forget the printed photos that had to be paper clipped to the pages with the xerox copies of them pasted (that were cropped with post-it notes and enlarged/reduced using the photocopier) where they were supposed to go on the page. This is how my high school did page layout and what our printer (local newspaper) received from us until 1999. That was the year we received all new Windows 95 machines, a scanner, and internet access in a lab. I immediately pitched the idea of using publisher (included in the OMG copy of office we had) to do the paper, self scan (and crop, correct, etc) photos, and send out a finished file for printing. We won awards on both methods.

In the case of the SCSI Zip drive for mac: there was some software that you could install but you could use the disks without it provided you had the disk inserted before you turned the computer on.

If you were around in those bleeding edge early days you had to be using SyQuest scsi 5.25" drives. and be grateful for 44Mb / disk.

I always see German words popping up with native English speakers recently. Whats the influx? We've been using English words for 30 years in everyday life.

good to see I'm not totally insane for thinking these were a big mac thing. obviously the IBM world had em too but it seemed like these things were required for mac users for a stretch.

Y'know, I bet I could. Now that could be fun.

+Lazy Game Reviews Please do it Clint ;]

Haha! I wonder what would be worse, its looks or its performance?

Lazy Game Reviews I'd love to see a video of such a Franken-PC!

An eMachines pc would be appropriate for the job

Figuring out the decompressing thing was a task..

Thanks! And yep, I believe that's the mic. I've used it for a couple years now (usually off-camera) and it's pretty good for the price.

No they were not a myth. I was working at a wholesale IT reseller in those days, we got a lot of them back, broken with the CoD.

OzTalksHW Did not know you like retro tech! hi!

I love retro tech :) I've done some older hardware on my channel previously. Lazy Game Reviews is pretty specatacular!

Aye :D Nice seeing you here. LGR is such an incredible channel hey? Such a cool dude :p

Dingleberry Tech Another tech youtuber I'm subscribed too... Is this a meet up?

Aha aye, that's awesome :D Small world on KZfaq apparently :p

12:26 Notice the red switch of death ie. the PSU voltage selector. Some wiseass guys periodically switched those at school and *kaboom*, one dead PSU and rig achieved :D The Iomega products were a bit rare in Europe. I remember only seeing a couple of times those 250Mb disks in the 2000 or earlier. But soon CD-R and RW took over permanently and after that came USB memory sticks. Oh those were the days... burning one 650Mb disk took something like one hour or so 20 years ago. We were pretty patient back then!

That depends a bit on which Jerry you use. I went with Garcia.

09yulstube Siërra Upgrade op USB stick 32 gb