Iomega I Am Easy 1980 T-Shirt

Iomega was founded in Roy, Utah in 1980 and for many years, the firm was a significant name in the data storage industry. Iomega's most famous product, the Zip Drive, was revolutionary as it offered relatively large amounts of storage on easily portable compact cartridges. The original Zip disk's 100MB capacity was a huge improvement over the 1.44MB limitation of floppy disks and were a fraction of the cost of similar disks like those from Syquest. The Zip Drive became a common internal and external peripheral, however, Zip Disk cartridges sometimes failed after a short period, (commonly referred to as the "click of death"). This problem, combined with increasing competition from CD-RW drives, caused Zip Drive sales to decline dramatically.