Frankly, I miss PCMCIA, and ZIP drives. Computing that required putting chunky cards and cassettes and stuff into drives. Old 90s anime style computing.
I know some of you know exactly what I mean. Please send GIFs that fit that aesthetic, or pictures of your gear that fits the bill 💜
@NanoRaptor TBH, this think would've made total sense back in it's days.
Playing around with virt-manager in #opensuse. #win98se running. Still fiddle around to share an image or folder with the host linux.
#zipdrive will be the playaround, if I can't manage :)
When you did that "put an old Macintosh on the Internet" thing already in the late 1990s and nobody cared (or mainly considered you a silly stupid nerd). #macintoshplus #ppp #zipdrive
Old tech. Is this stuff of any use to anyone, or is it all just e-waste? I suspect the latter but it seemed worth asking before it goes for recycling. London, UK. Also a box of cables (network and coax mostly)
Amiga 1200 Build: Installing Drives and Modifying Cables
#Amiga1200 #Amiga #RetroComputing #HardwareBuild #Modding #FloppyDrive #CDWriter #GoTek #ZipDrive #PCBway #Electronics
https://theoasisbbs.com/amiga-1200-build-installing-drives-and-modifying-cables/?feed_id=1687&_unique_id=67b3424c64b16
EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: A 3.5" internal SCSI Zip drive. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #ZipDrive #Iomega #SCSI
Watching a film where one of the characters is saving data to a zip drive. Ah had forgotten about them. Used to store web server backups on them.
Still have one in a cupboard somewhere. Used to really like that shade of blue in the external case.
Yesterdays cutting edge portable media is today's social media humor post. Issues in 1998-1999 the Iomega clik! drive was a 40mb external storage option. The card was about $250 ($473 today) and the media was $10 each or $ 0.25 per MB. My OWC 2TB CF Express card was $700 or 0.00035 per MB #clik! #iomega #zipdrive #storage #computer #electronics #history
El 12 de noviembre Iomega anuncia la venta de su dispositivo de discos ZIP número 10 millones. El ZIP era un disquete de alta capacidad de 100 hasta 250 Mb de datos, existían unidades internas y externas. El desarrollo de las unidades zip termino en 2002 con la introducción del drive de 750 Mb
#retrocomputingmx #zipdrive
Saturday chores and I scored this #Iomega #ZipDrive at the recycling yard.🥳
I looked for the power supply, but it was nowhere to be found.🤷♂️
Going to try and find a compatible one.
#RetroComputing #RetroGaming
Any #zipdrive users 😉
Do I know any #zipdrive experts? I have two USB zip drives (100 megabytes). On both as soon as I power them on the green and amber lights turn on, and stay on. There's a second amber led on the PCB which flashes irregularly.
The device doesn't enumerate as a USB device at all, it appears entirely dead. The eject button similarly does nothing.
Does anyone know of any common board level issues with these devices?
The Iomega Zip Drive was a revolutionary storage device introduced in 1994, offering a whopping 100MB of portable storage in an era dominated by floppy disks. Though it faced stiff competition from CD-RWs and USB flash drives, the Zip Drive holds a special place in tech history for its innovation and impact on data storage solutions in the late '90s and early 2000s.
🏷️ #RetroTech #1990sTech #VintageComputing #NostalgiaTech #OldSchoolTech #TechHistory #ThrowbackTechnology #ZipDrive #ClassicTech
Does anyone have a raw image (DD, sector image) of an "Iomega Tools" Zip disk? I'm curious how they implemented the dual Mac/PC format.
Beware: don't put it in a PC or Mac with the Iomega Tools software installed. If it sees a Tools disk, it'll delete the other partition and 'reclaim' it as free space. Guess how I ruined mine!
Imaging on Linux with "dd" should be safe.
An unmodified disk will report as being read-only.
@hmblank @vosje62 Kijk: je kan er niks meer mee maar vooruit. Schijfjes heb ik ook nog ergens. #zipdrive
For #MARCHintosh, I present my Power Mac 6100 with full page display which I only owned for a short time around 2000.
#Apple #Mac #Macintosh #PowerMac #PowerPC #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #CRT #HD #ZipDrive #SCSI #tech #vintagetech
@coolowt@mastodon.world Ah yes,the #ZIPdrive by #Iomega - one of my worst investments in computer hardware ever - cf. "click of death". I chose the #Panasonic #PD drive (itself the predecessor to #DVDRAM, but with 650MB and integrated #CDROM) as it's slower, but far more reliable successor. #retrocomputing
Got ‘er open, and was able to watch the #ZipDrive attempt to load the heads. It tries twice, and gives up. It doesn’t look like it’s moving far enough to get stuck on anything (as some others had reported happening), so I wonder if this is a power issue? Seems odd my #G4 #MDD wouldn’t have enough current as it’s got no spinning drives, but I’ll gonna try these drives in another PC tomorrow. #retrocomputing
