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. Just before the turn of the millennium, Iomega (who is known for their Zip and to a lesser extent Jaz drives) unveiled a small 40 megabyte storage solution for digital cameras, media players and laptop computers using a PC card (PCMCIA) slot. They called it "Clik!" (a name derived from it's purpose as a digital camera storage medium and and *click* sound made when a disk is fully inserted).
Clik! disks were small and had a resemblance to an even smaller form of a floppy disk (3.5 inch was still mainstream at the time). They featured a metal shutter that retracted upon insertion into a drive and made a *click* sound when they were fully inserted and locked. Another press then would unlock/eject a disk.
The drive itself functioned similar to a hybrid of a floppy drive and hard disk. Components would unlock and move the protective shutter away upon insertion of a disk and the drive spindle motor would spin the disk. An angular read/write head would then get positioned over the disk and this would then be used in writing data.
Later on Iomega had to deal with the lawsuit surrounding the "click of death", brought on by user complaints of failed Zip drives (most notably the Zip 100). Because they didn't want users to mistakenly associate "Clik!" with the "click of death" they changed the name to "PcoketZip" to defer any possible relationship between the two. The actual hardware remained the same.
As years went on, Clik!/PocketZip like Zip, Jaz and other storage solutions made by Iomega dwindled away into memory.
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. Just before the turn of the millennium, Iomega (who is known for their Zip and to a lesser extent Jaz drives) unveiled a small 40 megabyte storage solution for digital cameras, media players and laptop computers using a PC card (PCMCIA) slot. They called it "Clik!" (a name derived from it's purpose as a digital camera storage medium and and *click* sound made when a disk is fully inserted).
Clik! disks were small and had a resemblance to an even smaller form of a floppy disk (3.5 inch was still mainstream at the time). They featured a metal shutter that retracted upon insertion into a drive and made a *click* sound when they were fully inserted and locked. Another press then would unlock/eject a disk.
The drive itself functioned similar to a hybrid of a floppy drive and hard disk. Components would unlock and move the protective shutter away upon insertion of a disk and the drive spindle motor would spin the disk. An angular read/write head would then get positioned over the disk and this would then be used in writing data.
Later on Iomega had to deal with the lawsuit surrounding the "click of death", brought on by user complaints of failed Zip drives (most notably the Zip 100). Because they didn't want users to mistakenly associate "Clik!" with the "click of death" they changed the name to "PcoketZip" to defer any possible relationship between the two. The actual hardware remained the same.
As years went on, Clik!/PocketZip like Zip, Jaz and other storage solutions made by Iomega dwindled away into memory.
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