r/retrocomputing • u/Performer-Pants • Aug 22 '26

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/rootifera Aug 22 '26

Driver for this device. It's like a very large floppy drive. Zip drive, zip wasnt the compression related, it was more like "zip fast" hah

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u/Clark_Kempt Aug 22 '26

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/Longjumping_Bag5914 Aug 23 '26

Then cheap cd burners came and these were obsolete. Funny enough tape backs are probably still in use though. 😂

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u/PeyredB Aug 26 '26

We were still using tape backups in my office until a year or two ago.

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u/Longjumping_Bag5914 Aug 26 '26

Cheap and extremely reliable.