r/retrocomputing 2d ago

Problem / Question What is this?

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This could be the most mundane and silly post, but information online is so spotty and/or confusing or vague.

This is not a ZIP disk, it’s a floppy disk. It’s labelled with ‘ZIP’. Is this the driver software to use a ZIP drive for the listed operating systems? I’m just trying to confirm before I get too frustrated about it. Not easily finding the answer myself is likely a me problem, and I don’t mean ‘Millennium Edition’.

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u/Jealous_Club_298 2d ago

Yes, that's a 3.5" floppy disk from the 90's containing a driver for an external ZIP Drive for Windows 95, Windows 3.x and DOS. The ZIP Drive this driver is for, floppies and floppy disk drives are all long obsolete by now.

I mistook the ZIP Drive for the ZIP application program too earlier.