Iomega Corporation was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. Formerly a public company, it was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2008, and then by Lenovo, which rebranded the product line as LenovoEMC, until discontinuation in 2018.
The signing ceremony that created LenovoEMC joint venture
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.
Zip 100 drive with a disk
An internal Zip drive installed in a computer
An internal Zip drive outside of a computer but attached to a 3+1⁄2-inch to 5+1⁄4-inch drive bay adapter
The Zip disk media