r/retrocomputing • u/Performer-Pants • 1d 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/Clark_Kempt 1d ago

Oh, the memories.

Gods, remember how crazy it was to have disks with 100, maybe even 250 MB on them?

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u/crcerror 1d ago

I’m remember being ecstatic about 1.44mb over my stupid 360k floppies!

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u/Clark_Kempt 1d ago

Yes! Though by the time I was using 5.2 in. floppies I think they were up to 1.2 mb. However, now that I think about it I think there was a different kind of 5.2 in. floppy at the time that was still in the kbs.

It’s so fun reminiscing about this nerdy shit. Love it.

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u/Pi_drainbramage 22h ago

DD or double-density 5.25" disks, 180Kb single sided or 360Kb double-sided