Haha... it's not funny, but it's happened to other people before (including myself). Definitely check the Zip drive to make sure it's not the parallel type, or you could blow up your computer's SCSI bus (or the whole thing, depending on how it's all set up). I bought a PowerBook 2400c that someone had killed by using a parallel Zip drive. Luckily these 'Books are so full of fuses that one of them had blown before anything was damaged. I don't know if the LC machines have too many protective features like that.