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From: mm on 6 Jun 2010 00:50 A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good zipdrive in a broken computer. Is there an external case available that he can mount the zip drive in and plug it all in to the laptop with USB? I already have cases like that for 3.5 and laptop harddrives, but my googling for this has been unsuccessful. If I know there is such a thing, I'll keep looking. Thanks.
From: terryc on 6 Jun 2010 04:51 mm wrote: > A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good zipdrive in a > broken computer. > > Is there an external case available that he can mount the zip drive in Anything that will take a floppy drive. > and plug it all in to the laptop with USB? What bus did they plug into? you want such a case. if it exists.
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 6 Jun 2010 07:39 On 6/6/2010 12:50, mm wrote: > A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good zipdrive in a > broken computer. Tell your friend to transfer all data from the zip disks into DVD-R as soon as possible! The disks could go bad in no time! -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34 ^ ^ 19:38:01 up 18 days 22:49 2 users load average: 1.02 1.02 1.00 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: John McGaw on 6 Jun 2010 10:31 On 6/6/2010 12:50 AM, mm wrote: > A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good zipdrive in a > broken computer. > > Is there an external case available that he can mount the zip drive in > and plug it all in to the laptop with USB? > > I already have cases like that for 3.5 and laptop harddrives, but my > googling for this has been unsuccessful. If I know there is such a > thing, I'll keep looking. > > Thanks. Why not just beg/borrow/steal a working desktop computer of similar vintage and temporarily install the ZIP drive in that? It would then be possible to copy the contents of the ZIP disks to some other medium which is compatible with a modern computer. I suggest similar vintage to ensure that the system's BIOS will recognize that obsolete medium -- I don't think that any but my oldest system would admit that ZIP drives even exist. This seems to be the path of least resistance.
From: Bryce on 6 Jun 2010 20:23
Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) wrote: > On 6/6/2010 12:50, mm wrote: >> A friend has a laptop and some zip disks, and a good >> zipdrive in a broken computer. > > Tell your friend to transfer all data from the zip disks > into DVD-R as soon as possible! The disks could go bad in > no time! > One of my clients began using Zip disks for daily data backup in 1997: six disks used in rotation, one for each business day in the week. I tested the disks periodically to assure safe backups, with plans to replace older disks with new when a failure showed up. They used the same six disks (and the same Zip drive) for ten years without a single failure. |