Can a ZIP 100 internal drive replace the functionalities of a floppy drive? (Where a ZIP disk can be formatted to floppy formats and become the new A:/ drive.)
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wrote:Where a ZIP disk can be formatted to floppy formats
No, definitely not. (That would be an extraordinary waste of a ZIP disk.)
Back in the day there was something called Norton Zip Rescue that could be used to make bootable Zip disks, as I vaguely recall.
I still have 6 100MB Zip disks, most of which still have crap on them from 1999-2000. 🤣 Luckily my internal drives all work. I have a 100MB ZIP and a 250MB ZIP internal IDE drive. Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. 🤣 And they all worked!
wrote:Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. 🤣 And they all worked!
Wouldn't that have been a SCSI external drive? I was not aware you could chain parallel devices.
It was definitely NOT SCSI. It was a standard 25-pin Parallel cable that went from the PC to the ZIP drive, then from the ZIP drive to the Scanner, then from the Scanner to the Printer. Whichever system was being called to from the port would answer based on a hardware ID.
It worked for what it was, but when I bought my Windows 98 PC in 1999, I got the 100MB Zip drive internal and it was MUCH faster at reading and writing files.
wrote:wrote:Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. 🤣 And they all worked!
Wouldn't that have been a SCSI external drive? I was not aware you could chain parallel devices.
Most parallel port accessories has a port for a printer. This way you're not sacraficing the (usually) one parallel port for the accessory and have nothing for your printer.
So we all remember the pport Zip drive has a pass-through. I'm willing to bet the pport scanner has a pass-through as well.
wrote:wrote:wrote:Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. 🤣 And they all worked!
Wouldn't that have been a SCSI external drive? I was not aware you could chain parallel devices.
Most parallel port accessories has a port for a printer. This way you're not sacraficing the (usually) one parallel port for the accessory and have nothing for your printer.
So we all remember the pport Zip drive has a pass-through. I'm willing to bet the pport scanner has a pass-through as well.
Yep, I had my scanner, printer and zip all daisy-chained together through parallel connections though I don't remember the order. Those were the days!
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Huh. I never had that many parallel port accessories in use at one time. I guess I learned something today.
Sounds like the sort of thing with enormous potential to go wrong, considering how problematic SCSI could be.
If your looking for a replacement for the floppy drive the LS-120 drives would be a better fit then a zip drive. They connect via IDE but look just like a 3 1/2 floppy drive. they can read/write 1.44mb disks just like a normal drive but are faster and can use special 120mb disks as well.
