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I bought it to use it. It didn't cost much, and it seemed kind of silly to hoard it away and bequeath it to my grandchildren. I just think I got lucky in finding a brand new one for a reasonable price. D. EDIT: This is my third zip drive. I have two SCSI and one USB for various uses...

I don't think they're rare. Some eBay sellers ask crazy prices for them, presumably because of their use with some popular vintage samplers. It's still nice to find a brand new one though, rare or not.

It works very well :)

Here's the pic:

Later today.

Never been opened, still wrapped in cellophane. Almost seems a pity to open the box and use it... .D

Hi all, I've been playing with mine a bit more and I can confirm my previous results: - It works well and reliably in the Quadra 650 with System 7.6.1. It can read, write and boot. The only software I have that is able to format it is HDT 1.3PE. Everything else refuses. Only LUN 0 works. The...

Yes, I recently realised that this probably the problem. I havent't bothered to do anything about it yet :) Thanks, Daniel

Do you mean that everything is working except the sound, or that it is not working at all? D.

That seems a very complicated setup for something which may be a lot simpler. Why don't you just connect the Quadra via an ethernet cable to your wireless router? This works with both my Q650 and Q700. I use static IP addresses. If this doesn"t work, then try the more complicated setup.

This is true. I was actually wondering whether there might be a bad connection behind the power socket itself. But doesn't it also mean that my problem is most likely not a dying capacitor?

Hi all, I was reading this post : http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18421&p=175550#p175550 where Dennis suggests that someone's Macintosh TV is not working because the power cord is not properly plugged in. Since i have long suspected this might be the case with my Mac...

Hi, I have a couple of old small SD cards that I could use, if I had a PCMCIA adapter. That actually sounds like a plausible explanation - we tend to forget nowadays how huge a 2GB drive would have seemed in 1991. This could easily explain the behavior of the Mac Plus and the Q700.

Hi, I rather doubt that that is the problem; it does after all work well with the Quadra 650. I just tested the Q700 with the zip drive and it seems to work perfectly. I was able to format a disk, install a system on it and boot the machine from it. I am rather relieved that the Q700 doesn't...

Hi all, My Quadra 700 seems to have a serious problem writing to the CF card, but seems to be able to read from it OK. I haven't done any serious diagnostics yet. I'll try writing to a zip drive to see if the SCSI port is working OK. Hard disk reads and writes seem OK. The Q650 was reading...