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Adaptor for Zip Drive

Sep 24, 2009 7:12AM PDT

I have an old Iomega ext zip drive, ya know with that plug with the hundred pins. DB25 I guess???
Of course all of my current computers have USB ports.

Is there an adaptor I can buy to use the old zip drive with my new computers?
Or ANY WAY at all to get info from those 100 zip disks onto something else?

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ZIPs came in at least 3 flavors
Sep 24, 2009 10:16AM PDT

Is yours an internal or external? Your mention of a DB25 connector sounds like the external type that plugged into the printer port and had a pass through to the printer. If that's the case, it would still plug into a printer port if your MB has one. The first internals, if I recall correctly, came with a SCSI card and cable. Later ones were ATAPI. Which do you have?

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Re: above
Sep 26, 2009 7:19AM PDT

Sorry for the confusion...I use ext as a short for External.
Anyway...

None of my current computers have a multi pin port. Except for my monitor which is DB9.
All of my ports are for USB, including my printers.

I need an adaptor that will convert the multi pin on the ext Zip plug to a USB plug for my cpu.

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Didnt Know Such a thing Existed
Sep 30, 2009 6:30PM PDT

This is very hopeful news.....Thank you