![]() ![]() The clik! disk is inserted into the clik! PCMCIA card. There exists also a parallel port dock for the clik! drive, which I never got. I have used clik! disks via a PCMCIA interface and via USB. I have been wondering whether this is just old, obsolete and useless computer junk, or whether this clik! drive could be still useful for some special purpose under DOS, Win98 or WinXP, in 2011. I have an old Iomega clik! PCMCIA drive, several 40MB clik! disks and a USB Dock for the PCMCIA drive. No idea what the Iomega clik! stuff can be used for in 2011. No hardware seems to have been damaged during my experiment, but apparently an Accurite LS-120 PCMCIA drive does not work when connected to an iomega USB Clik! dock. The General tab of the properties sheet of the USB clik! dock displayed under Device status: "This device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed (Code 10)". Win98 detected the USB clik! dock with the Accurite LS-120 PCMCIA card inside, but the Device Manager displayed "Iomega Click!Dock" with a yellow exclamation mark. I then connected the Iomega USB clik! dock via USB cable to my up-and-running Inspiron 7500 laptop. The Accurite LS-120 drive was drawing sufficient power from the Iomega USB clik! dock. ![]() So I connected a stronger power supply (5V, 3.0A) to the Iomega USB clik! dock, and lo and behold, the activity light of the Accurite LS-120 PCMCIA drive stopped flickering and I could eject the inserted LS-120 diskette. The user manual of the Accurite LS-120 PCMCIA drive stated 5V, 1000mA peak. I suspected that the power supply was not strong enough to power both the Iomega clik! dock and the Accurite LS-120 drive. I had a 5V 1.0A power supply connected to the Iomega clik! dock, which has a label in the back stating "5V 1.0A". The green activity light of the Accurite LS-120 drive, with an LS-120 diskette inserted, started to flicker, but when pressing the eject button on the LS-120 drive, the LS-120 diskette was not ejected. I inserted the PCMCIA card of the Accurite LS-120 drive into the Iomega USB clik! dock when the clik! dock was not yet connected to the computer. I am just afraid of destroying both the (rare) clik! USB dock and the Imation/Accurite LS-120 PCMCIA drive in such an experiment. ![]() "Check out the new Zip® 250MB USB drive, the latest SuperFloppy solution from Iomega®." BTW, my own memory somehow associates the term superfloppy with Iomega, maybe Iomega used it most effectively in their advertising, e.g. Imation trademarked "SuperDisk" for their LS-120 diskettes in March 1997 perhaps because it sounded like the term "super floppy", used by the other companies advertising their wares. Here an ad in InfoWorld, of 2, by Toshiba about their 2.88MB superfloppy The 2.88MB floppy was perhaps the first superfloppy. I don't like the term "superfloppy", it was probably used more by advertising folks. A 2.88MB floppy disk is similar to an LS-120 diskette: you can stick both into a regular floppy drive, but the regular floppy drive will not be able to do anything useful with it. Like an LS-120 diskette, an unmodified 2.88MB floppy cannot be read, written to or formatted by a regular floppy drive, and the magnetic media used (Barium ferrite) is different from regular floppies. The "2.88 MB" floppy uses a special FDD, which can create twice the sectors the normal one can.A 2.88MB floppy belongs rather to the category "superfloppies" than "floppies". ![]()
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