All of that changed when a company known as Iomega introduced its “Zip drives.” With the ability to hold 100MB of data on a ...

requiring one drive per disk. “We are taking REV to the next level,” says Bob Lutz, Iomega's REV product line manager. “This is the world's first [hard-disk-based&#93 ...

The Zip was a floppy-like technology with design concepts from hard disks and Iomega's earlier Bernoulli disks. The drive's bundled software could lock the files for security. See Bernoulli box.

An earlier, low-cost, portable disk drive from Iomega. Introduced under the Clik! brand in 1999, it used floppy-like, 40MB cartridges that were half the size of a credit card and cost less than $10.