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LGR Oddware - Iomega Clik! Tiny 40MB Disk Drive

🕑 Added 2018-03-22 02:06:22 +0000 UTC

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ZULEYKA GAMES

Wow, it is interesting! I guess it is a useful thing, worth to use

I had one but I had 80mb clik disks from Fujitsu. They used a special software to add support.

Carey Brown

Yeah, the only reason I even knew about it was I had a firewire card as well. If I had both in my Compaq Armada laptop, the Clik! drive wouldn't actually spin the disk at all. I compared the firewire card with the 3Com card I had and realized that the firewire card was thicker and pressed against the Clik! drive.

LGR

Ouch. Yeah no wonder they ended up littering clearance bins.

LGR

Happy to jog the brain a bit :D

LGR

Interesting! Wish it said something about that in the guides mine came with. Although, that seems like a nasty design flaw either way.

PureBlueOctopus

I can't believe I forgot this existed! Love these videos

Carey Brown

I had one of these, and I too bought mine as a clearance item at Staples. They did have a problem with sharing slots.

Mat Cooper

I remember when these came out in the UK. Like most of my uni mates we all had Zip Drives and disks for course work and the like. The general consensus at the time was... 40mb? Why bother! All the uni computers had adopted the Zip drives and this just seemed oddly placed in the market even to the 19/20 year old me... Still neat though!

My co-worker was the lead QA engineer on the project. He has a ton of them in his garage as well as the MP3 players and Iomega Clik cameras. He has some interesting Iomega stories for sure. The Clik was so bad that they literally couldn't give the drives away.

LJFox

Doesn't it trigger mixed feelings when something goes wrong in one of your videos, like with this drive dying? Because although it's incredibly sad that you lost a piece of your collection (and us techie geeks around the world lost a piece of history), you narrate it with such calm and naturality that's almost comforting... I can't help but imagine myself going bananas had I been in your place

LGR

Ah that's okay, it wouldn't arrive in time to update this video since it goes public tomorrow. I'm sure I'll run across another eventually :)

Robert Launder

I also think these weird IOMega things are neat! I'm a fan of weird late 90's things that had potential and died.

Nicholas Wilson

I’m happy to send you one by the way, if you’re bothered? :)

LGR

Heh, yeah it was struggling enough in its home country of the US that I imagine overseas sales weren't a huge priority.

LGR

They are. Anytime an old computer makes a simple, shrill BEEP it makes me feel like I'm doing real work.

LGR

Heh, yeah it was almost silent with just a faint whirring before the death noises began. Really is a pleasant device to use when it's working!

LGR

Thank you! It really is one of the biggest "solutions in search of a problem" from the time period.

LGR

I did a while back, yep! Constantly adjusting things to improve it though, glad it's noticeable :)

LGR

Yep, it's since been fixed in the current version of the vid!

Brad Sparks

I had the HipZip and it was an awful MP3 player compared to the emerging market is thumbstick MP3 players.

The 8-Bit Guy

Great video. I had planned to cover this myself but at this point it would probably have been 2 years from now. I never owned one of these when they were on the market, but I do remember seeing them. However, I didn't see any particular need since I already had a ZIP drive and I didn't have any portable devices, or even KNOW of any portable devices that used the format.

aetherspoon

FYI, I think you might have said things backwards at 9:58. You said one way "from Clik Disk to Memory Card" - isn't it from the memory card to the Clik?

Nicholas Wilson

Oh wow! My girlfriend and me both used PC Card Click!/Pocket Zip drives to both backup and transfer data from our Win CE Handheld PC’s to our laptops until we replaced them with SD cards and readers. We bought ours from PC World here in the UK after they turned up on the reduced to clear table for £100 a peace new, with a disk. Not only did they serve us well but we still have them, they still work and so do ALL of our original disks! :D (as someone who knows what a PC Card Click!/Pocket Zip drive should sound like yours is very very dead sadly)

Clint, did you upgrade the lights or camera? The video looks clearer/cleaner. Also, I'm surprised I didn't buy into this tech at the time: cool yet quickly obsolete... just my style.

BastetFurry

Got one back in 2006 at the Hobbytronic in Dortmund, paid like 5€ or somewhere around that for it and got it out of curiosity. I mean, it was obsolete even back then and it showed when the same booth sells you 128 MB SD-Cards that have USB on their other side for 3€. :D

Somebody should do a remix involving the drive death noise.

Tim Wilcox

Great video. this is the kind of thing i would have bought in the day. Never saw this advertised in the UK though.

Kris Asick

PCMCIA card booting sounds are fun. :3

LGR

One of the most satisfying mechanisms I've used in a long time, it's addictive

LGR

So many, many ways to transfer your dozens of megabytes from place to place!

LGR

Thank you! Really am bummed by that death, I like that thing

LGR

For real though, it's a shame they didn't come out closer to when they were first teased in '97

LGR

Yeah it's a bizarre layout with that adapter. I'll fix that error in the next draft, thanks!

evistre

Neeeat.

Pablo Rodriguez

That is one very satisfying click. The product's name is well chosen.

Gary Leigh

Clik!

Steve Lovelace

I'd heard of Clik disks, but I didn't know what they looked like. Now I'm sad the format didn't take off, if only because I like the design so much.

blahmoomoo

Wow, the portable drive is a weirdly engineered product. Like, why would you put the power barrel jack right next to the parallel port where it can easily get in the way? What's the point of a portable bag for the drive if you can't take the battery or the memory card transfer thingy with you? 9:56 - You misspoke, saying it goes from Clik Disk to memory card, but the opposite is happening.

Jeff Davis

Great video, as always. Loved it. Also, RIP PC Card Drive. You tried.

The Enforcer

That failing card reader sounds like someone trying to start their car. A car whose engine is completely rusted. And good grief, I had forgotten how many methods you could store your media in the late 90s. D8