Pocket Zip drive
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The PocketZip™ drive was a drive made by Iomega in 1999 that used only small, very thin, floppy-like 40MB disks. It was known as the "Clik!" drive until the click of death incident that affected Iomega's Zip drives. A 100 MB Pocket Zip drive version had been in the works, was intended to be backwards compatible with the 40 MB disks, but ended up being vaporware and PocketZip itself would be discontinued as well. The PocketZip drive was also available as a laptop PCMCIA slot drive where it could compete with contemporary PCMCIA CompactFlash and SmartMedia readers.
The format was used, for example, in the Iomega HipZip Digital Audio Player. The format saw use in a variety of other devices as well but proved to be a commercial failure. It suffered heavy competition from other flash memory based memory cards.
Digital Capture Technology (DCT) with smaller disks and storage of 1.5 GB was rumored to be in the works in the early 2000s.
- PocketZip PC Card Drive
- PocketZip USB Drive
- HipZip Digital Audio Player
- Agfa ePhoto CL30 Clik!
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