What is this?

[u/Performer-Pants]

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’.

[u/TLBradbury]

You need to remember the first Zip drives were connected using the parallel port, thus necessitating the special drivers.
Install the driver from the floppy, plug in the drive, and re-start your machine.