# Time to comb through my Iomega Zip drives!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681
**Category:** random
**Created:** [January 13, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681 "2021-01-13T01:46:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/1 "2021-01-13T01:46:11Z")
> **[Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwords-wallets-fortunes.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur)**
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> Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can’t tap that wealth because you forgot the password to your digital wallet?
I am 99.999% certain there is nothing even remotely close to a bitcoin’s value in my archive. That .001% of doubt though 😛
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/2 "2021-01-13T02:00:27Z")
Zip drives had a really short time in the spotlight. I think there was only a single computer lab in my school system that had them. We had some sort of laptop attachment for them at home, and maybe a single desktop with a bay for it. (Maybe in the Pentium II era?)
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### Author:  [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/3 "2021-01-13T02:03:14Z")
I had an external USB-powered Zip drive! It must have been around the colorful iMac era, for I remember mine had a colorful blue/plastic exterior.
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/4 "2021-01-13T02:18:54Z")
Heh, I think lots of random devices in that era had all sorts of fun plastic designs.
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On the topic of losing out on stuff due to lost account access, something that came up recently is a novelty Twitter account I made as a student; I made the mistake of signing up with an MIT email alias that only lasted for a couple years after I left. So, despite having the credentials, I can’t log in anymore. Not a big loss, since it was a silly account, but a good lesson in the long run.
I’ve shifted almost all relevant email stuff over to domains I own, so when Gmail is inevitably cancelled or ruined, I don’t have to scramble accounts there.
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### Author:  [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/5 "2021-01-13T03:09:48Z")
> [@kirupa](#):
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> I am 99.999% certain there is nothing even remotely close to a bitcoin’s value in my archive. That .001% of doubt though 😛
Why would you have any at all, did you do some mining years ago? If you had any at a point in time far enough that you don’t remember, one would think it’s a lot by todays numbers.
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### Author:  [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/6 "2021-01-13T03:24:42Z")
> [@tbo](#):
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> Why would you have any at all, did you do some mining years ago?
A while back (2014), Coinbase sent a bunch of students bitcoin. I think undergrads got more than grad students, but $10 at the time is apparently $757.65 today. I spent mine on something frivolous years ago.
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### Author:  [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/7 "2021-01-13T15:21:36Z")
If anyone gave me bitcoin, i would end up being one of those pizza storys.
“I spent 3 bitcoin on pizza…waaaaaay back in 2017 when bitcoin was a mere $20,000. I have a serious pizza addiction”
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### Author:  [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-to-comb-through-my-iomega-zip-drives/645681/8 "2021-01-13T16:07:20Z")
Reminds me of that time my cousin almost had me convinced to start buying bitcoin back when it was new and under a dollar. A new digital currency? Yeah right. That’ll never take off.