This is an external zip drive, I couldn't find the disk anymore, it looks like a normal diskette, it's a little bit thicker and the metal cover that opens is smaller.
Who thought that parallel ports (printer) can't be used for drives?
What's inside it? The insides look like the insides of a floppy drive.
If you look at the head, It is also magnetic, not optical.
We got this external zip drive, because when we bought a PC before that was bundled with an internal zip drive, but it was useless because we couldn't use the zip disk it to transfer files from that PC to another PC (hindi pa uso network dati pero may internet na mabagal). I think that this is one of the reasons why ZIP and JAZ failed.
I was thinking of a reason why some memories/disks that come out of the market succeed and some fail (in terms of sales & users).
Lets look at some examples of the disks/memories that became successful. CD writers came long after CD players and VCD players came out. DVD writers came out after a lot of people had DVD players in their homes. USB flash disks came out when computers already had USB ports and a lot of USB peripherals were already being used.
I felt that if manufacturers create a product that uses something that everyone already has instead of creating their own "trend", it has a great chance of being successful just like what I mentioned above.
So this puts another question in my head..Blue ray isn't that popular yet. Most of the people, I think, do not have blue ray players at home, and they are already introducing blue ray writers, and disks in the market.. will blue ray be successful? only time will tell..
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