2 Dec
2012
2 Dec
'12
8:10 p.m.
ben wrote:
Can you give the details, of the Zip setup. I remember
they
came out with several Zip Disk interfaces, PC printer port,
Mac and some sort of internal card.
"Bare" 100 MB ZIP drives were available in three variants, IDE (rare),
ATAPI (attaches to IDE port, common), and SCSI.
External were available in parallel, SCSI, "Plus" (could connect to
either parallel or SCSI), or USB.
I've used both the internal and external SCSI ZIP drives on the PDP-11.
The external has the disadvantage that it only has two choices for ID.
The ZIP 250 was available for SCSI, but I haven't tried it. The ZIP 750
was not offered in a SCSI version.
I strongly recommend against the Iomega Jaz drive; the media seems to
develop a lot of bad spots over a period of months. And the Syquest
SyJet, Sparq, and Quest were even worse; my employer at the time chose
them against my advice, and they rarely lasted more than a week.