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SyQuest was once a major name in removable hard-drive storage, offering fast, high-capacity cartridges when ordinary floppy disks could no longer keep up. But as the removable-storage market exploded, Iomega arrived with the Zip drive and changed the competition.
In this video, we explore the rise of SyQuest, the technology that made it popular with professionals, its battle with Iomega, the mistakes that weakened the company, and how one of the pioneers of removable storage ultimately disappeared.
In this video, we explore the rise of SyQuest, the technology that made it popular with professionals, its battle with Iomega, the mistakes that weakened the company, and how one of the pioneers of removable storage ultimately disappeared.
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