The Iomega zip drive
I remember how great a gadget the original Iomega parallel port Zip Drive was. As a matter of fact my first copy of Windows 95 was installed from my Zip Disk as the entire Windows 95 Upgrade CD would fit on one Zip Disk if it was compressed (with the completely unrelated Zip compression utility).
That is why when the guys at Tech Republic decided to crack one open just for the fun of it I found it a few moments of nostalgia.
Today, USB sticks and full fledged hard drives have become ubiquitous. But it was Iomega that got the ball rolling…