BMW Drivers Own Zip Drives

[AndrewBird]

I was at goodwill the other day and saw a brand new in the box with plastic wrap zip drive. As I looked closer, I noticed the keys sitting at the bottom of the picture.





Apparently BMW drivers were the only ones baller enough to own one back then.

Oh, and sorry for the crappy pictures, I took them with my cell phone.

[daniel]

haha nice find.

[worangejuice]

"oh shit, my zip drive got locked in the drive, welp gonna go work on my bmw and change the rotors, oh shit the hexagon allen wrench bolt that holds on the rotor stripped completely and is now stuck too, fuck me"

[nando]

god zip drives sucked

thank goodness for flash drives..

[Jean]

god zip drives sucked

thank goodness for flash drives..

[Ben Carufel]

god burning DVDs sucks.

thank goodness for flash drives..

Fixed.

[sector6]

god zip drives sucked

thank goodness for flash drives..

yea, I had one when they first came out 15 years ago or so (100 mb?? woohoo!). beat the hell out of floppies, but agree flash drives ftw.

[StereoInstaller1]

yea, I had one when they first came out 15 years ago or so (100 mb?? woohoo!). beat the hell out of floppies, but agree flash drives ftw.

I had an internal SCSI Zip.

I will take any USB 2.0 flash any day over that...

[Jon325i]

You do your shopping at Goodwill?

[funcrew]

I had a zip drive that was "state of the art" at the time - and totally obsolete within a year or two. Nowdays, I'm a late, late adopter of technology, and I keep the stuff forever. I still use a laptop that was built in '97. I bought it in '99 and it still works great. My 12-year-old and myself fight over it for playing Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition.

[AndrewBird]

You do your shopping at Goodwill?

Was looking for Halloween costume stuff. It was fun though taking a stroll down memory lane looking at all the old electronics. There was a Dreamcast controller, a Netgear 56K modem/switch that was actually made of metal, and a bunch of other really cool old electronics.

[Desaevious]

Was looking for Halloween costume stuff. It was fun though taking a stroll down memory lane looking at all the old electronics. There was a Dreamcast controller, a Netgear 56K modem/switch that was actually made of metal, and a bunch of other really cool old electronics.

Yeah I go there from time to time to look for NES/SNES/N64 games. I managed to snag a second NES Duck Hunt Zapper for $2.50!

[bwanac]

i bought some nice beer glasses at goodwill.

amen to usb flash drives.

[TexasTerp]

haha! Those keys seem to be oddly familiar....e30 keys anyone? I know mine looks like that!

[monoblanco]

Zip drives were the shit when they 1st came out. Jazz drives on the other hand were crap.