On 3/29/23 02:18, Ali via cctalk wrote: >> Still have my Caleb UHD144 drives, though--144MB on a 3.5" preformatted >> floppy. Drive also reads and writes 1.44M and 720K floppies. > >>From what I understand the Caleb was too little too late. Zip had already >>established dominance and LS120 was on the market.
I think that Zip drives benefitted largely from the support of Apple. Some Performa models had a Zip drive as standard equipment and there was the USB Imation Superdrive targeted toward Mac users. FWIW, I buy Superdrives even if the drive inside isn't known to work. The enclosure is very nice for standard 3.5" drives. Very often, the things come up for auction without the USB dongle and wall wart PSU--and a floppy stuck inside. I have the dongle and PSU, so it's mostly a matter of plugging the thing into a PC and issuing an "eject" command. The plastic ejection button on the things often deforms so that the ejection switch can't be activated manually. It's a minor fix to reform the button. --Chuck
