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SCSI zip drive
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The emoji code calls it a Lisa2. And this one a Lisa: :lisa:Actually it is. That's a Macintosh XL.
With the addition of the Apple I, ][, /// & Lisa, *NIX & Newton forums over the years, I'd say we're pretty much non-denominational these days. :lol:
Here are some pics of the Zip100 Plus I just brought back from home. It has its own power adaptor, which I've included a closeup of.
Haven't tested it yet. Was very wary to try any of the disks from my parents' as I remember vividly the issues we had with the USB zip drive we had and the potential of ruining a good drive with a bad disk... So will be getting a never-used disk at some point!
Haven't tested it yet. Was very wary to try any of the disks from my parents' as I remember vividly the issues we had with the USB zip drive we had and the potential of ruining a good drive with a bad disk... So will be getting a never-used disk at some point!
I’ve brought 35 disks off ebay and 6-7 didn’t work but thankfully didn’t damage either of my drives; 1 x zip 100 scsi and 1 x zip 100 plus like yours again on scsi. I had to re format all as they were old ibm etc but now have over 3GB’s worth of disks to back up my 3 vintage macs. Love the zip drive
Same unknown I’ve found them reliable myself, i had a Zip drive back in the 1990’s and father was still using his zip drive for copying files as late as 2016 as his internet was so poor at home (he lives in the countryside). I’ve had my zip drives for 18 months now and couldn’t have got my se/30 up and running without them, i use my performa to access macintoshgarden (be it slowly) download to zip and transfer to my se/30, it’s not as good as networked but it works and is somehow satisfying hearing all the noises and blinking lights
Yeah, I may go that route. People who have the Mac formatted ones seem to be charging extra for them, perhaps unsurprisingly. :/
Its worked for me lesca, it took a long time to get anything onto my se/30 and ended up buying the performa just to get online and transfer files, the zips have been a god send, now my se/30 is near where i want it backing up to zip so i could reinstall if i had a hhd failure is a must as it’s taken me 12-18 months to get this far
Yes kind of, my original 40mb drive was starting to fail and would stick a bit so I brought a later 1gb none quantum drive and installed 7.5.5 on it and hence me wanting to back up using zip (for now) installed a bunch of utilities, software and games as i have a gb to play with and it may sound stupid as its a 1 bit black and white machine with a tiny screen but I’m setting my se/30 up for desktop publishing. I’ve maxed the ram (128mb), i have a scsi scanner, apple 1200 printer, a wacom graphics tablet, photoshop, quark express, aldus freehand etc.. all for doing graphics, drawing and art. I did design at uni back in 1992 and used macs then and had a colour classic but always liked the little black and white machines so kinda nostalgic to attempt art on one now. I’m not a designer anymore I’m to much of a geek for that but do enjoy playing around with the software and making things especially of an old mac.
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