Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.

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The 5.27 megabits of data are more than 600 times bigger than the largest data set previously encoded in DNA. It is the equivalent of the storage capacity of a 3.5-inch floppy computer disk.

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