We have received a number of corroborating reports, suggesting that Iomega Zip drives experience very slow transfer rates under a variety of systems running Mac OS X 10.2.x. 100 MB Disks Joe Ligotti ...

Who doesn’t love a Zip drive? With their sweet 100MB of magnetic memory, they used to save my ass back in the day. (My Performa 6400 even had an internal Zip drive.) And who doesn’t love a marionette?

These days, of course, the idea that 100MB is “a lot of data” is pretty preposterous. Shoot H.264 video at 1080p and 60fps for four seconds, such as on an iPhone 6, and you’ve generated a hundred megs ...