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Jaz 1GB (Jaz 1GB)
Iomega's Jaz 1GB drive provided 1 gigabyte of removable storage, making it a high-end solution for professionals in multimedia, CAD, and video editing during the late 1990s. Unlike Zip disks, Jaz cartridges contained hard-disk platters, offering dramatically higher performance and capacity. Jaz drives were essential for users who needed to transport multi-hundred-megabyte project files—something impossible with floppies or Zip 100 disks. However, Jaz drives were expensive and prone to hardware failures, limiting their adoption. They represent early attempts to scale removable storage before the solid-state era.
Nibble (nibble)
A nibble consists of 4 bits, exactly half of a byte. It is the smallest unit that can represent a single hexadecimal digit (0–F), which makes it essential in low-level data representation. Nibble operations arise in microcontroller design, bitwise arithmetic, encryption algorithms, and early computing architectures that manipulated data in 4-bit chunks. Although modern systems process much larger word sizes, nibbles remain conceptually important: digital logic circuits still group bits in fours for hexadecimal notation, instruction encoding, and debugging tasks. In many ways, the nibble serves as the bridge between binary and human-readable representations of digital information.