It seems Iomegaware v4.0.2 is still available from download from mirrors but is really only useful for Windows 2000 or so (at the latest) – I’ve had issues with the installed drivers causing conflicts on newer versions. Software bundled in included Iomegaware, RecordIt, 1-Step Backup, Iomega Tools, Guest and CopyMachine. It claims this unit is Assembled in Malaysia. A lot of white space, with a few subtle layout issues. The rear of the box gives you some idea of what you can do with your Zip disks and drives. I never actually saw or held one of these cartridges. Interestingly, the Iomega HipZip was one of the few devices that used their Clik! 40Mb cartridges, later named PocketZip after the Click-of-Death issues, when Flash wasn’t quite there yet (due to cost) and miniature hard drives were expensive. How very funny.Īs this drive was made just before the Christmas of 2000, one of the things we see is a competition label in the bottom right corner, whereby registering your product by the end of the year would grant you the chance to win “JVC DVD Players, AGFA Cameras, Magellan Handheld GPSs, Iomega HipZip (MP3s), Siemens Mobile Phones and Compaq iPac (sic) Pocket PCs.” It seems that sales of Zip drives had really begun to fall, and they were looking for almost anything to try and stimulate their sales. As no disks were included, they “tacked on” a little label that says “Buy yours now!” like that would save their “sinking ship”. This unit was made for PCs using the parallel port interface. Unfortunately, late drives are less sought after when it comes down to construction quality, as the cost reduction measures had resulted in these models being slightly less reliable (anecdotally speaking). Aside from the date, we can tell this is a late ZIP drive as the software comes on a CD-ROM and no Zip-Tools disk is included (no doubt, a cost reduction measure). The package itself was originally quite dusty, and torn on the top, as if someone hastily tried to open it without removing the tab. This drive was dated at 30th November 2000. The drive itself is a very late model Zip drive, and it came around the time when CD-RW drives just started to take off. It’s not my first ZIP 100 Parallel (which is quite slow and CPU-intensive), but it’s the first ZIP drive I’ve seen in its box, making it highly desirable for preservation. Imagine my surprise when a colleague offered me this – a pristine ZIP 100 Parallel Port drive in box. Amongst the things I’ve done include taking one apart, looking at the performance of the drive compared to its contemporary (the LS-120), taking apart a cartridge and looking at the LS-120 box, taking apart a dead ZIP 250, and looking at various marketing materials surrounding the ZIP 100. I deleted them from all of my ZIP disks and never backed them up.My fellow readers who have been following for a while would know that I’m literally swimming in Zip disk gear. Thanks to the OP for posting the archive of the tools. You don't *need* to install any of the Iomega tools to access the drive in Windows 95 (guest.exe is not required) as long as your SCSI drivers are working correctly. I had some issues with remnants of the old Windows 3.11 ASPI drivers hanging around after the Windows 95 upgrade that were causing the system to lockup. You can keep both if you use a startup menu to boot directly into DOS or games or whatever and want to access the drive. Windows 95: you will want to disable any 16-bit ASPI drivers in DOS and install the appropriate 32-bit ASPI drivers into Windows 95. To access the ZIP/Jaz/etc drive from DOS or Windows, you have to use guest.exe to assign it a drive letter (which you can put in your autoexec.bat). If you don't have those, you can try various Adaptec drivers, as many cards will work with those. My memory of the intricacies of ASPI had long faded away.ĭOS/Windows 3.x: you will need for ASPI drivers that hopefully came with your SCSI card. In an effort to keep this thread properly necro'ed, I wanted to answer the above as I have just gone through the process of getting an old SCSI ZIP100 working on a W311 machine that I "upgraded" to Windows 95.
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