Object Details
- Description
- The SuperDisk, also marketed as LS-120, was a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 3.5 inch, 1.44 MB floppy disk. Introduced in the mid-1990s by Imation, 3M's storage products group, it was not as successful in North America as it was in Asia and Australia. Several original electronic manufacturers (OEMs) supported it--Compaq, Dell, and Gateway were a few that did. Even though the SuperDisk drive was backwards compatible with 1.44 MB and 720KB floppy formats, the popularity of Iomega’s Zip drive kept it from dominating the floppy storage market. By the 2000s the price of CD-R, CD-RW, and solid-state USB flash drives dropped to a point that made magnetic disks no longer competitive.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1997
- ID Number
- 2015.3167.03
- catalog number
- 2015.3167.03
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3167
- Object Name
- storage media
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 7/8 in x 3 13/16 in x 3/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 9.68375 cm x .9525 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1801964
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-65af-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
