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3 hours ago, Pariah said:

When we moved over the summer, I found a box that had my old Zip drive and three discs in it. The challenge now is finding a computer that has a parallel port.

 

It might be possible to connect it through a parallel to USB adapter. They run about $10 to $20 on Amazon.

 

https://itstillworks.com/connect-interface-usb-port-computer-8685649.html

 

The Zip drive we had at the house was SCSI, which ran at about as fast as an 8x CD. I had once taken a disk into work, only to find that what took about 10 minutes to copy at home would take a few hours to read on the parallel connection.

 

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1 hour ago, Ternaugh said:

 

It might be possible to connect it through a parallel to USB adapter. They run about $10 to $20 on Amazon.

 

https://itstillworks.com/connect-interface-usb-port-computer-8685649.html

 

The Zip drive we had at the house was SCSI, which ran at about as fast as an 8x CD. I had once taken a disk into work, only to find that what took about 10 minutes to copy at home would take a few hours to read on the parallel connection.

 

 

Flashbacks of setting the dip switches on my external SCSI devices so that everything on the bus had a unique ID.

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