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Topic	Why did floppy disks stop at 1.44 MB?
Red_Frog 11/27/17 5:36:04 PM #4:	Well, mostly it's because, as you stated, other technologies were rapidly developing that were simply cheaper, faster and more easily used especially with regard to USB drives and CDs. I had a few Zip drives, actually wanted an Orb drive but never managed to get one. They were pretty great at a time when CD writers were actually still prohibitively expensive. Iomega attempted to stay in the market later on pushing their branded external CD writers, but I think they tried too long to hold on to their magnetic media niche and IIRC were absorbed by Lenovo about 5 years ago. <cite>Red_Frog posted [p:891160015] in Why did fl... [t:76036978]...</cite> <quote>Well, mostly it's because, as you stated, other technologies were rapidly developing that were simply cheaper, faster and more easily used especially with regard to USB drives and CDs. I had a few Zip drives, actually wanted an Orb drive but never managed to get one. They were pretty great at a time when CD writers were actually still prohibitively expensive. Iomega attempted to stay in the market later on pushing their branded external CD writers, but I think they tried too long to hold on to their magnetic media niche and IIRC were absorbed by Lenovo about 5 years ago.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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