TH2002
Experienced Member
(Apologies if someone has asked this before, I looked and could not find a thread in this vein)
In another trip to the thrift store this past Saturday I picked up a couple Zip 100 drives, figuring they would be a great way to transfer data between my vintage and modern computers.
One of the drives I picked up is a Z100P2 parallel port model. So far I've tested the drive on MS-DOS 4.01, 6.2, as well as Windows 95 and XP - works like a dream.
But what about using these older drives on Windows 10 and 11? Would it be feasible to use one of those USB to parallel adapters, or should I pick up one of the never Zip drives that has USB built in? Do modern versions of Windows have problems recognizing even those? What about how reliable these drives are in comparison to regular floppy drives - better or worse?
In another trip to the thrift store this past Saturday I picked up a couple Zip 100 drives, figuring they would be a great way to transfer data between my vintage and modern computers.
One of the drives I picked up is a Z100P2 parallel port model. So far I've tested the drive on MS-DOS 4.01, 6.2, as well as Windows 95 and XP - works like a dream.
But what about using these older drives on Windows 10 and 11? Would it be feasible to use one of those USB to parallel adapters, or should I pick up one of the never Zip drives that has USB built in? Do modern versions of Windows have problems recognizing even those? What about how reliable these drives are in comparison to regular floppy drives - better or worse?