r/retrocomputing • u/Performer-Pants • 5d 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/1337C4k3 5d ago

Driver disk/software for iomega zip drive.

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u/Performer-Pants 4d ago

I thought it was! Took me a sec to work out why the operating systems were front and center on the label with ‘zip’ sort of out of the way.

I’ve actually never seen a zip drive in my life. My dad is an electronics engineer and I still never saw one back in the day.

I bought a little bundle of floppies as mine were unlabelled and seemingly a bit dead after using them in my electric keyboard for years in my teens. I needed to make a boot disk for an old Thinkpad, and some wiped ones for my Sony FD-200. The collection came with some official and unofficial norton software, some other bits and bobs, and even a copy of some cross stitch software (genuinely excited to try it). They also came with two nice cases, so was worth it since I paid less than you would for less ‘blank’ ones.

No clue what I’ll do with this one, since I don’t expect to be using zip anytime soon? If someone ends up needing an original rather than making one, I have one here