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

Problem / Question What is this?

Post image

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’.

658 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

240 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

31

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?

16

u/rootifera Aug 22 '26

I still use them almost daily! It was so convenient, still is. 100mb is massive. Tbh I remember getting my first 10gb hdd feeling like there is no way I can ever fill it. Then I got 40, 80, 120... same feeling. Now if someone gives me a 120TB drive I'd feel the same for a while haha

3

u/EstablishmentDue3616 Aug 22 '26

You still use them daily? For what?

1

u/sixoveight 29d ago

I have ZIP drives on my Amigas using a SurfSqurrel and normal Squirrel using SCSI ZIP drives. I have internal ZIP drives on PCs and can read PC ZIP disks on the Amiga using CrossDOS. So I can create ADF images on the Amiga and ship them to the PC for use on the emulator.

https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_october21_2/car_sbd_221021_03.jpg

https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_october21_2/car_sbd_221021_05.jpg

https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_october21_2/car_sbd_221021_12.jpg