Tag: SCSI

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.

A nostalgic deep dive into how external hard drives and removable-disk products from the 1980s and 1990s reshaped computing - from technical breakthroughs to cultural impact - and practical guidance for preserving the data they hold.