An IDE Zip 250

#1 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 20:28 An IDE Zip 250 — #1

Sorry it's taken me a while to get round to posting this but about a week ago a friend of mine was trashing an old PC and I went round to his place and took all the bits that I wanted. Most interesting was an internal IDE Zip 250. I don't have the disks for this thing and it's not really a Mac thing, but just an interesting piece of tech for my collection. Still, I wish it could do more than just sit on the shelf...

#2 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 20:57 An IDE Zip 250 — #2

yeah it would have been much more fun to you if it was SCSI.

#3 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 20:58 An IDE Zip 250 — #3

i like how LIDO7 just init's them and they work great.

#4 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 21:27 An IDE Zip 250 — #4

IDE Zip 250 was an option, at least, on several models of PowerMac G4, so it's sort of a Mac thing.

#5 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 21:35 An IDE Zip 250 — #5

uniserver said:
yeah it would have been much more fun to you if it was SCSI.

Yeah but I still don't have the disks.

#6 Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 22:11 An IDE Zip 250 — #6

You can pick them up on eBay quite easily

#7 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 - 06:19 An IDE Zip 250 — #7

My G3 has an internal Zip 100 and my G4 QS has an internal Zip 250. Furthermore, I also have an Archos firezip 250 firewire which is glacially slow.

#8 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 - 16:39 An IDE Zip 250 — #8

You can use Zip100 disks on the 250 also if you find some of those

#9 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 - 17:17 An IDE Zip 250 — #9

markyb86 said:
You can use Zip100 disks on the 250 also if you find some of those

Yeah, I know.