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Fred C Thomas III

Iomega Zip Drive (1995) - Fred Thomas one of the principal inventorsThis little blue external storage drive, roughly the size of a paperback book, was an instant sensation, giving average computer users their first taste of easy backup and relatively rugged 100MB storage media. The only storage technology ever mentioned by name on HBO’s Sex and the City, the Zip Drive was available for both Macs and PCs; the Mac version connected to the SCSI port and the PC version hooked up via the parallel port. You could see the disk through a clear window built into the top of the drive, and it was always a pleasure to see the yellow LED light, which meant everything was working well. However, if the drive clicked too much (a phenomenon also known as the <a href="http://grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm">Click of Death</a>), you were in trouble. You still have one somewhere, don’t you? Photo courtesy of Iomega.