Chapter 12. Disks, Drives & iTunes
Show me a disk technology, and I’ll show you a spinning storage medium that the world eventually abandoned, usually led by Apple. Think about it: The iMac was the first brand-name computer to arrive without a floppy disk drive (1998). Soon after, Windows PC manufacturers left the floppy drive for dead, too. And now the CD/DVD drive is gone, too—no remaining Mac model comes with one.
Those disk formats join a grand parade to the great CompUSA in the sky: Zip disks, Jaz disks, SyQuest disks, SuperDisks, Peerless disks…
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