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Back in the late '90s, SyQuest released the SparQ Drive - a 1GB Superfloppy format that went head to head with Iomega's Zip. But it quickly fell flat on its face. And in today's video, we're going to unbox and explore a new-old-stock unit!

Archived copies of the 2 disks shown: https://archive.org/details/SparQDisks

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction & History
05:20 - Unboxing
10:30 - Installing the SparQ
13:50 - Setting up the drive in Windows
14:23 - Windows 9x Moment
15:30 - Exploring the driver floppy
16:36 - Exploring the included SparQ disk
18:05 - Serif DrawPlus
20:42 - Turning up the (SegaSoft) Heat
22:11 - Howdy!
27:26 - NovaDisk
28:21 - SpryNet
29:50 - The SparQ Launcher
30:43 - WebVCR
33:40 - SparQ Utility
35:45 - Who do you trust with your life?
37:01 - Copying files from the SparQ disk
38:22 - Outro

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