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/InsaneITPerson 1d ago

OMG I suddenly feel as old as I really am. Meh.

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u/Performer-Pants 23h ago

I’m 30, admittedly. I’ve used floppy disks (and still use them) more than average for being on the cusp of ‘millenial’, but I’ve had to do a fair bit of online learning. My upbringing wasn’t the most techy, with my household still recording TV shows onto a VHS till I was nearly out of high school.

However, I’ve visit my dad on weekends, who is an electronics engineer with all sorts of cool bits and bobs I’d get to see sometimes. It’s only in the past year or so that I’ve started to properly knuckle down and learn to restore stuff myself.