PocketZip Drive and Media
The PocketZip drive was available originally as a laptop PC card (PCMCIA) slot drive where it could compete with contemporary PC card, MicroDrive, CompactFlash and SmartMedia readers. A "dock" was available to connect this drive to a desktop computer's parallel port. Later, a USB version of the drive was also offered. It was marketed as a backup and portable storage solution, similar to the Zip drive, but which could be installed completely inside of a laptop, as PC cards typically slide completely inside of the laptop and thus do not increase its dimensions, which also precludes the need for a power supply or cables.
The PocketZip media was a small, partly circular flexible disk inside of a thin metal casing, similar to that found on the shutter of a floppy disk. The disks usually came in small format-specific plastic cases, and the drive was also shipped for a while with a small hard metal case which could house the drive and two disks. The disks could be bent easily if too much force was applied, thereby completely damaging them.
A similar device, Digital Capture Technology (DCT), with smaller disks and storage of 1.5 GB was rumored to be in the works in the early 2000s.
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