General Information

Serial #

6K1116

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

SYNTHETIC & METAL DISK/ SYNTHETIC CASE WITH PAPER LINER

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

10.6 cm

Width

10.3 cm

Height

1.3 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Computing Technology

Category

Digital peripheral devices

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Iomega

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Utah

City

Roy

Context

Country

North America

State/Province

Unknown

Period

UNUSED: APPEARED 1994, SUPERCEDED 1996

Canada

AMERICAN MADE DATA STORAGE DISK OF TYPE USED IN CANADA & ELSEWHERE. ZIP DISK DRIVE (& DISK) MADE MAJOR IMPACT IN COMPUTERIZED PUBLISHING & GRAPHICS CIRCLES. RAPID INCREASE IN SIZE OF FILES, ESP. THOSE WITH GRAPHIC IMAGES FOR PUBLISHING, REQUIRED NEW, MORE CONVENIENT METHOD OF DATA TRANSFER.ZIP DRIVE WAS OVERNIGHT SUCCESS.

Function

HIGH DENSITY REMOVABLE DISK USED TO STORE & TRANSFER LARGE COMPUTER FILES. IT HOLDS 100 MB OF DATA & WHEN PURCHASED WAS INITIALIZED FOR PCS, BUT COULD BE REFORMATTED FOR MACINTOSH COMPUTERS. PREFORMATTED VERSION FOR MAC COMPUTERS COULD ALSO BE PURCHASED.

Technical

APPEARING IN 1994/95, ZIP DRIVE & ITS 100 MB DISKS WERE MAJOR IMPROVEMENT IN REMOVABLE DATA STORAGE. IT WAS ADVANCEMENT ON HIGH DENSITY (1.4 MB) FLOPPY DRIVES IN USE SINCE 1987 & WAS DIRECT COMPETITOR WITH SYQUEST DRIVE, PREVIOUS STANDARD (SEE 970005). IN MID 1996 IOMEGA RELEASED SUCCESSOR TO ZIP, IOMEGA JAZ DRIVE WITH 1 GB DISKS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLACK & WHITE LETTERING ON DISK DRIVE LABEL READING "zip 100 1 (TM)/ 100/ iomega"/ INCISED LETTERING ON DISK BACK READS "(C) Iomega 1994 patented and patents pending" & "6K1115"/ RED, WHITE, & BLACK LETTERING ON LINER READING IN PART "iomega (R) zip 100 disk/ Formatted/ for IBM-/ compatibles/ 1 (TM)/ iomega/ 100MB disk for use with Zip (TM) drive" ON FRONT, & ON BACK "Assembled in Taiwan" & "Iomega Corporation, 1821 West/ Iomega Way, Roy, Utah 84067"

Missing

COMPLETE

Finish

DARK GREY DISK WITH BRUSHED METAL PARTS, BLUE, WHITE, RED, & BLACK LABEL/ COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT CASE/ PRIMARILY PURPLE LINER WITH MULTICOLOURED MARKINGS

Decoration

GREY MARKS RESEMBLING DOODLING ON DISK LABEL, REPRESENTING EYE, HAND, CURLED ARROW