I credit Oh Gizmo! with this find, it really brightened up an otherwise uneventful day. If you have never heard of the Iomega Zip
Drive, then you are probably young enough to have escaped the
technology. Lucky, lucky you, I am old enough but can say that I never
had the pleasure of owning one. They held 100MB, back when 100MB was
an enormous amount of data and the disks were expensive. They also had
this little problem called “Click of death” which made us late adopters glad that we didn’t adopt.
With the preamble out of the way, lets get down to business and that
business is the Iomega Rev. Judging from the picture, it looks like a
drive that you can plug cartridges into. The cartridges look to be
miniature hard disk drives. Each one holds 70GB, and is priced to move
at $1 per GB. When you combine that with the price of approximately
$600 for the external unit, you get something that really has little
chance of moving. Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks are only going to get
cheaper, while component based stuff like this can only go so low. It
could just be that the Rev is the final nail in Iomega’s coffin.
Oh Gizmo!
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