Dell Vostro 400 Owner's Manual page 205

Zip — A popular data compression format. Files that have been compressed with the
Zip format are called Zip files and usually have a filename extension of.zip. A special
kind of zipped file is a self-extracting file, which has a filename extension of.exe. You
can unzip a self-extracting file by double-clicking it.
Zip drive — A high-capacity floppy drive developed by Iomega Corporation that uses
3.5-inch removable disks called Zip disks. Zip disks are slightly larger than regular
floppy disks, about twice as thick, and hold up to 100 MB of data.
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