WARNING: I have received feedback from one user who says that it is not bootable with a PowerPC Mac. The enclosure was designed to fit perfectly on the foot of the iMac (G5 models and later), sitting below the computer itself, and essentially using no desktop space since the iMac’s foot was already occupying that space. The Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive was actually a well-conceived product that should have had a broad market. However, Iomega was never a big player after the demise of Zip drives and disks, and the company was acquired by Lenovo in 2008. That is the background, and in 2002 Iomega began selling external hard drives. Adding a CD-RW drive to its line didn’t help since CD-RW was commonly being installed in PCs from the factory or easily added by tech types. Iomega later added 250 MB and 750 MB Zip drives and disks, followed by is Jaz drive, which used hard drive platters, provided higher throughput, and came in 1 GB and later 2 GB capacities.Īs 100 MB became less useful over time, and because higher capacity Zip disks never caught on because they required new drive mechanisms, Iomega became a less and less important player in the storage industry. One popular use of Zip was with a Mac Plus because it let you run completely silent except during disk access.
MEDIA COMPANION FOR MAC MAC OS
I remember in those days having a 100 MB Zip disk set up with a full Mac OS install plus Norton Utilities and some other trouble-shooting apps. The disk was thicker and had a slightly larger footprint than a 3.5″ floppy drive, stored 100 MB of data on relatively affordable media, and provided decent throughput. Iomega is most famous for its Zip drive, introduced in late 1994.
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