The SuperDisk (LS-120), launched by Imation in 1996, used 'floptical' technology — optical laser guidance to position magnetic heads — to achieve 120 MB capacity on a 3.5" disk, nearly 100x the standard 1.44 MB floppy. It was backward-compatible with regular floppies and appeared in Dell, Compaq, and Gateway PCs. Despite a 2001 successor (LS-240) doubling capacity to 240 MB and adding shingled magnetic recording, the format never gained mainstream traction. Iomega's Zip drive had already captured the market in 1995, and by the early 2000s cheap CD-R media and USB drives made all magnetic removable storage obsolete. The SuperDisk went out of production in 2003.
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