I took pictures of the disassembled drive on the phone, so I apologize for the low quality. Unfortunately, in a disassembled drive, the floppy disk hangs freely, so I did not dare to turn it on so as not to damage the heads.
Iomega zip 100 device driver windows xp zip#
When the ZIP disk is placed inside the drive, the metal shutter shifts:Īnd through the opening from the end of the disk, the heads are pushed inward. In the central part, under the metal cover, there is a head unit: In other systems, it failed to check - I did not find a computer with LPT by the port.
Iomega zip 100 device driver windows xp windows#
So the device is displayed in Windows XP: The picture is not visible due to mediocre quality, but the label on the label at the top shows the year of manufacture of the device - 1997. To get a floppy disk from a switched off drive, you need to press a hole with a thin long object (paper clip) in the hole located in the upper right corner on the back of the device (Thanks to DenisBlack for the addition).Ĭonnection diagram and support contacts on the bottom of the device: On the back, the output voltage parameters are visible:īy the way, the eject button of the floppy disk is electric. There are 2 LPT ports on the back wall: for connecting to a computer, and for connecting to a printer, which at that time was also usually produced with an LPT interface.Īctually, the cable itself for connecting: It can be used both horizontally and vertically, for which there are legs on the right side of the case, and the power cable runs in a recess. My drive is an external ZIP-100 with an LPT interface: The zip drive is 20 year old technology and next to obsolete, like floppy disks. One of our stores had 8GB PNY sticks for 3.99. The data transfer rate for the ZIP-100 model is about 1 MB / s. Dont waste time searching for a storage device that holds 100MB of info when you can get a cheap 8 GB, yes thats the same storage as 80 zip floppies, USB stick. The drive had 3 main varieties: ZIP-100, ZIP-250 and ZIP-750, which were produced at different times and used disks of different capacities (approximately 100, 250 and 750 MB, respectively). Subsequently, they were replaced by rewritable optical compact discs, which had a higher capacity, and the drives and the discs themselves were cheaper.
And I decided to make a very brief review.įrom the second half of the 90s and until about 2003, such devices were very popular for the transfer of large files, and backups of important data.
I recently conducted an audit at work, and found one interesting device, namely the Iomega ZIP-100 with LPT interface.
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