The Iomega Zip 250 drive was historically significant because it represented the second major step in the Zip format’s evolution, expanding the capacity of one of the late-1990s era’s most important removable-storage systems from 100 MB to 250 MB. More broadly, it stands as part of the brief period when Zip drives were widely seen as a practical successor to the floppy disk for backups and file transfer, just before CD burning and USB flash storage made that whole category obsolete.

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