As I said in my first post, "Are zip drives made as scuzzy, parallel, or one for all or is the difference in the cable hook up?" How does one know it is a scuzzy drive if you don't have the original box?

I find them from time to time at thrift shops but don't know how to tell which is which?

I have used an outboard zip on my custom PC where the drive is daisy-chained with the printer but now it is installed on-board!

I guess what I want to know is, how to identify a scuzzy zip drive when I find one or where to buy a 250 one?

Next, I am running OS 7.6.1 and wonder if It will support the zip drive? Any ideas?????

Thanks to all for any help!!!!!

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If you look at the back, one port will say "zip", this is the side that goes to the computer. The second port will have either a small printer, or the SCSI logo. If it has the SCSI logo, it's SCSI. If it had a small printer, it's parallel. (The SCSI model also has to small switches, one to set the SCSI ID, and one to turn termination on or off.)

You can see pictures on Iomega's support site. It shows every ZIP drive they made. The fourth one down is parallel, the fifth is SCSI. (A second pair, the 100 MB models, are located further down the page as well, although they look identical.) Second to last is the rare "ZipPlus" which would automatically switch between SCSI mode and parallel mode depending on what you had it plugged in to. Notice that it says "AutoDetect" instead of "zip", and has both the SCSI logo and printer logo, as well as only one switch. Again, this one is really rare.