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sygnus21
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I guess that's why I never got into them. I remember buying like 50 disks (beside the 10, I already had) only to use about 10. CD's were all the rage then
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if PCs failed as often as zip disks did, we'd all be on Apple.Or the question could be will my PC work tomorrow seeing how so many people are having issues with their PC's ;-)
The drive works. Point proven. Argue amongst yourselves
hotdog321
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GAAAAAAH! Click of Death! I owned a couple and had a bunch of data stored on Zip Disks. Really a clever device destroyed by catastrophic engineering/construction and the refusal of Iomega to fix the issue.
www.cnet.com
"Click of death" strikes Iomega
Zip Drive users are reporting serious malfunction of their drives and disks, including data loss.
www.cnet.com
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sygnus21
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Then everyone would be *itchin' about Apple.if PCs failed as often as zip disks did, we'd all be on Apple.Or the question could be will my PC work tomorrow seeing how so many people are having issues with their PC's ;-)
The drive works. Point proven. Argue amongst yourselves
Regardless, we get your point.... however irrelevant to the intent of the initial post.
And for the record, I'm not advertising use; I'm simply clearing the false narrative they don't work under Windows 10..... or (given your fears of failure).... work just as well as they did under previous OS's ;-)
Happy now
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Fazal Majid
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You might be able to sell it to a company that specializes in recovering data from obsolete media.Yeah, this was resting in some dark hole until I found it while cleaning out my garage. I've no need for it and only hooked it up to prove a point. It'll go back in the garage after this
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sygnus21
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Or throw it on eBay. Right now I'm in my pack rat mode of holding onto things. I've probably got enough stuff to make any eBay shopper happyYou might be able to sell it to a company that specializes in recovering data from obsolete media.Yeah, this was resting in some dark hole until I found it while cleaning out my garage. I've no need for it and only hooked it up to prove a point. It'll go back in the garage after this
BTW I also found this. Old school here boys...
3dfx Voodoo 5500 AGP graphics card.
Yes the card is in there and I still have the original driver disk :-D
AnandTech's review - The Voodoo5 5500 AGP
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I see your Voodoo AGP graphics card and raise you an ATI All-In-Wonder Rage PRO 8 MB...
... that I only recently finally got rid of.
Should have tried it on Windows 10 for giggles, just to bend some noses around here.
... that I only recently finally got rid of.
Should have tried it on Windows 10 for giggles, just to bend some noses around here.
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sygnus21
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Pictures or it doesn't count
AwkwardSwine
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Scratches head as he looks for the parallel port on the computer...
Chris Noble
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I had one. Good memories. But CD-RWs killed the Zip Drive. And they are now dead as well.
Amazing how much computer evolution during my adult life, from punch-card batch-job mainframes in college to what we have now. Many generations of talented engineering.
BG454
Veteran Member
Yes, albeit a disk drive with 100mB capacity.This is also for that person who challenged me (a few times) and said I didn't know what I was talking about
Anyway as I said then, Windows will simply see this as a disk drive and read/write to it because it is.... a disk drive
Mine's still around somewhere, but in view of some of the reliability comments in this thread, I'm not interested in even connecting it to my PC.
BigBen08
Veteran Member
I recently found a 3 pack of zip disks in my drawer. Still sealed in the plastic package.
I considered donating them to a computer museum, but found them for sale on amazon and ebay for very little. I ended up donating the disks and drive unit to a thrift shop.
I considered donating them to a computer museum, but found them for sale on amazon and ebay for very little. I ended up donating the disks and drive unit to a thrift shop.
BillyBobSenna
Senior Member
I could save 1 D850 14-bit uncompressed raw file per disk. Impressive. It would reduce the risk of loosing a lot of files if a disk failed!
AikenMooney
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I have a friend that had been elected to Sec of our Home Owners Assn & some of the files were still on ZD Disk. He called & asked if by chance I still had a zip drive & I found it in my storage room. I did not remember that it had a parallel port. A few calls to friends & I found one with USB. Connected to Win 10 & read the files. It was P&P. He is now removing data from some CD-R disk.
What is next in storage???
Mystery member
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I never used ZIP drives, preferring HDDs in removable bays.
Yes, I did see a few failed ZIP drives, and my other anecdote concerns a nice lady office manager who couldn't figure how to use ZIP drives because...
"You need to use WinZip with those, don't you"?
The other day I connected a floppy drive to my spare Win7 computer (mainly to fill a space in the front panel), and four out of five 20 year old floppies read OK.
Yes, I did see a few failed ZIP drives, and my other anecdote concerns a nice lady office manager who couldn't figure how to use ZIP drives because...
"You need to use WinZip with those, don't you"?
The other day I connected a floppy drive to my spare Win7 computer (mainly to fill a space in the front panel), and four out of five 20 year old floppies read OK.
Michael Benveniste
Veteran Member
Because of some of the volunteer groups I work with, I find myself having to deal with obsolete media on a semi-regular basis. So when I switched to a new Windows 10 PC earlier this year, I made sure I that all of the following "stuff" I accumulated over the years still worked.
Last month, someone did ask me about 5.25" floppy drives, but I don't have a working one of those. I suspect I'd have to buy a vintage computer to get one.
- Canoscan FS4000US with APS holder (SCSI or USB 1)
- Nikon Coolscan 8000 (Firewire)
- Zip 250 (100 MB compatible, External)
- 3.5" Floppy (External)
- BD/DVD/CD combo drive
- Fujitsu 650 MB Magneto Optical Drive (SCSI, 230 MB compatible)
- Nakamichi 5-Disk CD-Rom changer (SCSI, in the same enclosure as the MO)
Last month, someone did ask me about 5.25" floppy drives, but I don't have a working one of those. I suspect I'd have to buy a vintage computer to get one.
