What does ZIP stand for?

Zip Drive (Iomega)

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Information technology (IT) and computers
Business, finance, etc.

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Then along came the Zip drive and the world of data backup changed overnight thanks to the creator of the Zip drive - Iomega.

The Iomega Zip Drive A Quick History

all USB memory devices) or by individual device or port, such as allowing a specific user to use a particular ZIP drive on specified machines.

Secure PC ports

In the mid-1990s, when 100 megabytes was a whopping amount of data to store, Iomega made a name for itself with the Zip Drive system, which held that much on removable disks.

Shifting gears in the drive market. (High-Tech)

The Iomega 250Mb External Zip drive offers a simple, low-cost way to store multi-megabyte size files.

carol@ mirror.co.uk: GIVE A PC SOME ZIP

x $149 We have here, finally, the famous Iomega Zip drive system as it ought to be - a way to move huge amounts of data from one location to another with a bare-bones minimum of bother for Mac and PC users alike.

HARDWARE -- IOMEGA ZIP USB DRIVE

They can also output from the Zip drive directly to the Kodak Personal Picture Maker for quick and easy image printing.

Iomega Provides Storage for Kodak Personal Picture Maker by Lexmark; ...

Iomega first introduced the innovative parallel port external Zip drive in 1995, and it was immediately met with enthusiastic reviews and won numerous awards from industry publications and trade groups.

Iomega Reaches Major Milestone With Shipment of 25 Millionth Zip Drive

With the addition of the Zip(R) USB drive and the Zip(R) 250 drive, now there is a Zip drive for virtually every desktop and notebook PC, iMac, G3 or Macintosh computer, internal or external, with every common interface -- parallel port, SCSI, USB, ATAPI and PCMCIA.

Iomega Reduces Price of Popular Zip 100MB Drives