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).
#Recordit vs reddit software
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. My fellow readers who have been following for a while would know that I’m literally swimming in Zip disk gear.
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