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Later (USB, left) and earlier (parallel, right) Zip drives (media in foreground) ZIP 250 USB Drive. Zip drives were produced in multiple interfaces including: IDE True ATA (very early ATA internal Zip drives mostly sold to OEMs; these drives exhibit software compatibility issues because they do not support the ATAPI command set)
Internal and external 1GB Iomega Jaz drives with media. The Jaz drive [1] [2] is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002.. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which in its original version stores data on high-capacity floppy disks with 100 MB nominal capacity, and later 250 and then 750 MB, the company developed and released the Jaz drive.
Iomega made PCMCIA and Firewire adapters for the externally powered Zip 250. Either one also provided power to the drive. Firewire required a 6-pin port. The PCMCIA adapter was a connector on a cable, attached to the card. The Firewire adapter was in a housing that fit onto the rear of the drive and covered almost the whole back end.
Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC) [3] [4] [5] was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. [6]
Ditto external drives were connected to the parallel port and offered a print-through port which allowed a printer to operate while daisy-chained to the Ditto drive. This is a feature also commonly found on an Iomega ZIP drive. Usage of the parallel port allowed for transfer speeds (in EPP mode) of a maximum 1 MB/s.
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