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Iomega Zip drives are so ubiquitous in the PC hardware universe that I expect to see a report soon that archeologists have discovered an Egyptian tomb with mummified Zip cartridge instructions. It'd probably be in Mac format, though.
File managers have a curious, some would say unique, place in desktop computerdom. They seem to be only slightly behind text editors in their ability to trigger religious conflict among true believers. It's not hard to find instances of one user reacting to another's choice of file manager with, "You use what???", a situation that can quickly put the "personal" (as in ad hominem) back into personal computing.
Our story begins late in the evening, in the halls of an Internet publishing start up: Sherry, working under tight deadlines and unreasonable demands, is sitting in a dimly lit room, trying desperately to integrate some badly-scanned drawings into her Web pages. A knock on the door breaks her concentration. She spins her chair to face the pale faced man she knows only as Gizmo. "What do you want?" she asks.