[geeks] Zip disks

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 10:54:58PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:32:35PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > The problem with Zip drives was that they sold the drives almost at
> > cost, and tried to make the profit on the *media*.  Should have been
> > the other way around.
> 
> Presumably they thought that if it worked for razors and razor blades it
> could work for them.

Actually, I thought it had something to do with the lack of excitement about
the old 40 iomega drives that didn't manage to do anything other than get
used by art people.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd