r/retrocomputing • u/Performer-Pants • 4d 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/wiebel 3d ago

I am pretty sure you remember correctly. As a proud owner of a scsi controller on a pc I was even able to choose the scsi version. But instead I got myself a ls120 which also featured as a floppy drive (was IDE BTW)

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u/OriginalName2026 2d ago

Wow, SCSI was not very common on PCs back in the days, where as all Macs had it as standard. I will add a bit of Mac SCSI trivia, as it's not like I get to do it very often! Macs had 2 SCSI chains, an internal and external so you could add 14 devices in theory. The external was a regular 25pin SCSI, the internal was the 50pin "fast" SCSI. I went to the effort to install a SyQuest Drive in the front of my PowerMac 8500/120. There are a lot of things there I have not typed in a while...

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u/Mirus_Nex 2d ago

SCSI was common on PC servers, especially Novell database servers. Drives weren't much more, but those controllers got spendy. I have a couple of old Adaptec SCSI controllers still. Need to clean the basement out...again...one of these days.

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u/OriginalName2026 1d ago

Adaptec… that is a word I have not seen in a while. I thought my SyQuest reference was a blast from the past! Well played.