Iomega 100mb External Paralell Zip Drive

Twiggy

Last week, I bought myself a zip drive for $5.00 at a Thrift store, it's the 100mb parallel version.

Unfortunately, it didn't have the power adapter, but that's not too bad, as I have a unviersal. I am however having trouble finding the proper voltage.

Also, are there drivers required, where could I find them?

SomeGuy

Interesting, I also acquired a parallel port zip drive a while back with no cables but have not had time to mess with it. On the bottom, it says it uses 5 volts, but does not say how the plug should be polarized. Actually, not sure if that means AC or DC.

I would also be interested to know what kind of cable is supposed to connect from the parallel port to the zip drive. I would guess a straight through cable.

As for drivers, there was some discussion about those on the Vintage Computing forum a while back http://www.vcfed.org/forum . They are floating around out there somewhere, but they are known to require a CPU later than the 8088/8086 and someone was selling a special "palm zip" driver for those use with those machines.

Twiggy

SomeGuy wrote:

Interesting, I also acquired a parallel port zip drive a while back with no cables but have not had time to mess with it. On the bottom, it says it uses 5 volts, but does not say how the plug should be polarized. Actually, not sure if that means AC or DC.

I would also be interested to know what kind of cable is supposed to connect from the parallel port to the zip drive. I would guess a straight through cable.

As for drivers, there was some discussion about those on the Vintage Computing forum a while back http://www.vcfed.org/forum . They are floating around out there somewhere, but they are known to require a CPU later than the 8088/8086 and someone was selling a special "palm zip" driver for those use with those machines.

Thanks, shouldn't be a problem for me. I'm only using a 486 and higher.

hmjswt

popeyewinter wrote:

Last week, I bought myself a zip drive for $5.00 at a Thrift store, it's the 100mb parallel version.
Unfortunately, it didn't have the power adapter, but that's not too bad, as I have a unviersal. I am however having trouble finding the proper voltage.
Also, are there drivers required, where could I find them?

Hallo,

I have put the ZIP 100 drivers for MS-DOS, Windows 3, 95, 98 and XP on my website.
Go to: http://swtcomp.com/software/iomega/iomega.htm

The power source is 5 Volt DC and 1 Ampere.
Inside = +. Outside ( sleeve ) = -.

Have fun.

Greetings from The Netherlands,
Henk Siewert

menage

Be careful when picking up the extension cable. Some of them don't pass all 25 pins but instead terminate some of the printer ground connections that the Zip drives uses.

fdisk

Specs from my Zip 100 parallel wall wart:
Input: 120V 60Hz 13W
Output: DC 5V 1A
Model No: RWP480505-1