During the peak of removable storage, "RW" and "Zip" were frequently mentioned together in reviews of hybrid drives or early backup software: Iomega ZipCD Go to product viewer dialog for this item. Reviews : Users often looked into the Iomega ZipCD
were reviewed for their ability to print directly from multiple media formats, including CD-RW and Zip disks [17]. Software & File Management
: Motherboard reviews from the early 2000s, including the Go to product viewer dialog for this item.
, which combined the Zip brand with CD-RW capabilities. Reviews from that era, such as those in
, highlighted the ease of using software like Toast 4.0 to drag-and-drop files onto rewritable discs.
In a software context, "rw.zip" or similar naming conventions were sometimes used for utility archives: