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What is a zip disk?

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A zip disk is a disk which can be read by a Zip drive.

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A zip and a jaz disks is basically a small portable storage medium.

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waht is the functions of zip dsik

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What came after zip disk?

What came after floppy disk


What is the storag device?

Zip disk


Who was the inventor Zip Disk CD-Rom?

A Zip disk, and a CD-ROM are two completely different storage devices ! The Zip Disk was (in simple terms) a high-capacity disk, It was superseded by the invention of the CD-ROM, which offered much higher reliability and capacities. The invention of the Zip-disk was attributed to its marketing company Iomega - no single person has been credited with its invention.


What is the purpose of a Zip disk?

A zip disk is a removable storage device that is designed to fit in a zip drive. Zip disks were first produced in 1995. Zip disks cannot be read by any other drive, and a zip drive cannot read any other disks.


What is the storage capacity of Zip Drive?

250mb is the capacity for a zip disk The early Zip drives had just 100MB.


Is there a market for selling zip disk?

Nope.


How big is a zip disk?

210 mm


What technically is an Iomega zip drive?

A Iomega zip drive is a disk drive that is very similar to a floppy disk drive. Iomega is the company who produces these disk drives, and are compatible with Mac and IBM computer systems.


What is the typical size or a zip disk?

o.3


What came straight after the floppy disc?

Zip Disk.


What is a drive used to read and write data to a zip disk?

As strange as it may seem, you write to a zip disk using a zip drive...Zip drives are pretty much out of favor now, everyone is using DVD's, flash drives and external hard drives.But if you need to read an old zip disk, see if you can find an old I-Omega zip drive. I would offer to sell you mine but it's long gone.


What are the advantages of a Zip internal disk as opposed to a removable disk?

More storage space usually. And speed.