What Are the Functions of Zip Drives?
old zip drive image by Wayne Abraham from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a06/2b/gc/functions-zip-drives_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); The classic Zip drive People use computers to process information. They can share that information with others using email, online storage areas or websites. Because computer uses sometimes need their information to travel with them, several forms of transferable data storage systems have been developed. The Zip drive was one of the first removable disk storage systems, developed in 1994 by Iomega. Around the year 2000, its popularity started to dwindle as other kinds of portable storage media arrived on the market. Convenience Zip drives offer people convenience. Data can be saved directly from the program being used, or files can be dragged and dropped right into drive, unlike CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, which require another program to store the data. Zip drives plug ri