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Re: ZIP GSX 1.0.1 vs 1.0.2
On Aug 31, 6:45 am, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Because that Zip Drive is not the Zip Drive that most of us know
> today. This one is an internal hard drive made by Zip Technologies,
> the maker of the Zip Chip, as it plainly shows on the bottom of the
> board in the picture:
>
> http://www.downloads.reactivemicro.com/Public/Apple%20II%20Items/Hard...
>
> the normal Zip Drive we are all familiar with is made by Iomega and
> uses disks that hold anywhere from 100MB to 750MB. Depending on when
> this ad cam out I wouldn't be surprised if Iomega had sued Zip
> Technologies over use of the name.
Wikipedia says that Iomega introduced their ZipDrive in late 1994.
I wonder when this ZipDrive "filecard" came out.
bye
Marcus