Iomega still shows ZIP drives on their site, and now have a fairly full line of desktop, laptop, portable, etc drives; but a quick look at their line doesn't indicate whether they're still using "Bernoulli disks" in any of them (other than the ZIP?).

I used a couple of "advanced computers" at EAC years ago that had no storage other than "floppy media." One was a DOS machine (fortunately with IBM BASIC in ROM) that had one 5" 2D floppy slot, and another, with Win 3.10, had a removable (bootable) 8" IOMEGA disk that had to be locked in a "secure vault" when not in use.

We used ZIP disks for several years for shipping (by snail mail) large files to/from clients of LiK's business, but some IOMEGA "quality problems" resulted in most of the clients refusing to use them, all within a very short time. The newest crop of drives would eat and destroy a high percentage of the disks, and the newest crop of disks had a high probability of failing and ripping the read/write heads out of the drive. IOMEGA replaced three drives for us, under warranty, but we were forced to abandon the whole concept.

Serendipitously, the problem came at about the same time that premium $ervice provider$ began permitting enormous emails with attachments up to a whopping 1 MB, so we had a work-around, although it required sending chapters (or sometimes sections of chapters) in separate emails instead of sending complete books.

In my memory, IOMEGA is most notable for the (printed) instruction saying "DO NOT CONNECT YOUR NEW DRIVE before reading the complete installation instructions," with additional fine print buried at the end of the print instruction that informed you that the installation instructions were accessible ONLY on the included ZIP Disk.

John