Computer Storage, Imation SuperDisk
date: label: date made
content: 1997
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3167.03
label: catalog number
content: 2015.3167.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2015.3167
objectType: label: Object Name
content: storage media
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 3 13/16 in x 3/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 9.68375 cm x .9525 cm