Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)

ZIP needed a whole ecosystem of drives, so did you have that?

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    10 months ago

    I was in college and working in a student computer lab at the height of zipdrives. There was a gap where floppies were way too small, CD writers were either molasses slow or not in a public university’s budget, and USB was uncommon. SCSI was “da bomb!” in the parlance of the time.

    Zip disks were one of the main avenues of piracy between students.