[geeks] Zip disks

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:32:35PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> The problem with Zip drives was that they sold the drives almost at
> cost, and tried to make the profit on the *media*.  Should have been
> the other way around.

Presumably they thought that if it worked for razors and razor blades it
could work for them.

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