Glossary: Dell Latitude D620 User's Guide
Z
ZIF
zero insertion force A type of socket or connector that allows a computer chip to be installed or
removed with no stress applied to either the chip or its socket.
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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