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Beyond the Floppy: The Unseen Heroes of Data Storage in the 80s and 90s
Before USB thumb drives and cloud buckets, a ragged army of removable hard drives and external SCSI boxes quietly kept studios, labs, and offices functioning. This piece rescues a few of those forgotten models - the Bernoulli Box, SyQuest cartridges, Zip and Jaz drives, and the SCSI externals - catalogs their virtues and vices, and explains why they still matter to preservationists.