Unlike the later pocketable ZIP drives, this one requires an external DC power adapter input, making it less portable and less convenient. As usual, there is an emergency eject hole as well.
The rear has a single USB-B connector for data and a Kensington lock slot. Users of the older parallel port and SCSI ZIP 100’s would feel immediately at home, as the drive practically has the same footprint. The cartridge label window is starting to fall into the drive, a rubber foot has gone missing and the eject button plastic hinge has given way, but that’s what you expect from something of this age. This unit was made in Malaysia on 2nd August 1999, and comes complete with the over-cartridge-window label. This would have been one of their mid-early USB ZIP drives judging by the size, and has a model number of Z100USB. Say hello to the translucent blue USB ZIP drive.
More on that later though … ZIP100 USB Drive These aren’t that easy to come by, especially compared to ZIP100 equipment. This week, I had something to celebrate as I finally managed to have a working ZIP250 drive and cartridge donated to me for a recovery exercise. This site’s seen quite a few postings on the ZIP drive and disks, but because of its influence, I still to this day handle ZIP disks and equipment on occasion. To help myself remember what to do in the future, and to hopefully help others, I’ve decided to put up a series of posts on how to set up these old systems with links to the disk images and files I use.Here’s another one for those nostalgic people who just can’t get enough of the Iomega ZIP. Luckily the software can still be found on the internet archive, or sites like the Macintosh Garden and the Macintosh Repository, but it looks like it will be a lot harder to find the information that used to be in the knowledge base. that I used back in 1999/2000, I quickly found out that Apple has finally started to abandon these old machines, removing the free downloads and knowledge base articles that vintage mac users have relied on.
When I started to look for the guides etc. I also obtained a Macintosh LCIII to setup as my backup system in case the Macintosh Color Classic decides to die on me (need to get a cap job done on both of them). I recently pulled my old Macintosh Color Classic (with an Apple IIe Emulator Card) out of storage in preparation for a move to see if it still works (last used in 2001)… so far so good.
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