APEX tech in the UK might help A few years ago I needed to access some data on an old DAT tape created with Retropect (created circa 1994 on OS 7) and I had tossed my SCSI DAT reader decades ago. While I was located in San Francisco, I found a company in the UK that was reasonable and offered to access the data. Mailed them the DAT tapes, and they pulled it off and sent me back the data on a DVD as requested. So if you don't have access to a ZIP drive near you, try shooting them an email. Edit - I'm assuming that you are trying to recover some valuable old data, rather than using these clunkers as a modern storage medium. A few years ago I needed to access some data on an old DAT tape created with Retropect (created circa 1994 on OS 7) and I had tossed my SCSI DAT reader decades ago. While I was located in San Francisco, I found a company in the UK that was reasonable and offered to access the data.
Mailed them the DAT tapes, and they pulled it off and sent me back the data on a DVD as requested. So if you don't have access to a ZIP drive near you, try shooting them an email.
Edit - I'm assuming that you are trying to recover some valuable old data, rather than using these clunkers as a modern storage medium. I use an Iomega brand bus-powered USB Zip drive all the time with my Macbook Pro and OS X 10.9. I have zero issues. The drive mounts and unmounts just like like any flash drive. The drive will even eject the disk automatically when I unmount the disk in the OS. I'll also add that I have a 'bondi blue' Imation USB LS-120 drive.
These were popular when the first iMacs came out as a floppy drive replacement. I use this with my MBP somewhat frequently also, both to read/write floppies and LS-120 disks.
Elecard StreamEye Basic - video quality test software for QA, technical support, and system integration teams dealing with video compression quality assurance, encoder settings adjustment or selection of best codec. StreamEye Basic offers key features of StreamEye for effective video compression quality verification and does a great job in localizing inefficiencies in the encoded streams. Elecard on twitter elecard streameye available for mac. Stream Summary informaion: Profile, compatibility flags, level, tier, chroma format, resolution, frame rate, duration, frame types, average frame sizes; range of quantizer values; bit allocation info. Picture information: CU, PU, TU size; max min QP; pixel distribution into encoded type: intra, inter, and skip; motion vectors range.
I play with a lot of older Macs, and often times dowloading extensions or software on my MBP and then dumping them onto a ZIP disk is the easiest and most painless way to get the files to old computers. When I need to make floppies from images, this capability comes in really handy as the only way I know to do that is with a computer that has an internal floppy drive and is running OS 9 or earlier.
Often, I'll dump a bunch of images onto a ZIP disk and then use my beige G3(which has both an internal floppy and internal ZIP drive) to actually make the floppies. But, then, all that is probably more than you want to know.
The short answer is find a USB(or Firewire) ZIP drive and you will be completely fine. I use an Iomega brand bus-powered USB Zip drive all the time with my Macbook Pro and OS X 10.9. I have zero issues. The drive mounts and unmounts just like like any flash drive. The drive will even eject the disk automatically when I unmount the disk in the OS. I'll also add that I have a 'bondi blue' Imation USB LS-120 drive. These were popular when the first iMacs came out as a floppy drive replacement.
I use this with my MBP somewhat frequently also, both to read/write floppies and LS-120 disks. I play with a lot of older Macs, and often times dowloading extensions or software on my MBP and then dumping them onto a ZIP disk is the easiest and most painless way to get the files to old computers.
When I need to make floppies from images, this capability comes in really handy as the only way I know to do that is with a computer that has an internal floppy drive and is running OS 9 or earlier. Often, I'll dump a bunch of images onto a ZIP disk and then use my beige G3(which has both an internal floppy and internal ZIP drive) to actually make the floppies. But, then, all that is probably more than you want to know.
The short answer is find a USB(or Firewire) ZIP drive and you will be completely fine. Click to expand.That's AWESOME!!!! That was exactly what I wanted to know and what I needed to know as well. I was at goodwill this morning and saw a nice 1GB JAZ drive with discs, but once I picked up the item, I heard a bunch of rattling around inside it and the drive door was off and the power button was also removed. I was 'slightly' upset.
I also have a Backwards compatible PS3 that I really don't fully utilize so I was looking at PS2 games as well. I found some awesome ones but most of the discs were missing/stolen or scratched beyond belief. To update the information related to this rather old thread I can verify that even in El Capitan some external Zip 100 drives will work perfectly, with no additional software needed. First, however, my older style USB ZIP drive (P/N 04041100, model Z100USB, manu. ), a blue transparent case one that is boxy and has its own power supply and I think is technically second generation, is not recognized by my Mac Mini (late 2012) running El Capitan 10.11.4.
Although you may find an older Iomega driver for early Mac OS releases it is actually a PowerPC version that, first of all, would require Rosetta (of course no longer included with OS X) and that driver is certainly far too old anyway. However the good news for people like me who still have a bunch of old Zip disks (PC and Mac formatted) with some data that we occasionally want to retrieve is that you can mount them and access their contents perfectly well with the 'newer' style USB Zip Drives (mine is P/N 30897300, model Z100USBS, manu. ) that have the more streamlined, opaque blue cases (there is a proper name for that case style but I can't recall it). These newer drives are bus powered (only) and when I connect mine to a USB port on my Mac or a USB hub, insert a ZIP 100 disk, the disk is automatically and quickly mounted on the desktop.
I see that you can buy even more recent USB ZIP 100 drives than mine, of the 'modern' style, but they seem to me to be stupidly expensive for the technology they offer (about $160+) and it would really make no sense in my opinion to buy ZIP disks ($5+ per disk) when you can get 8 gig (or sometimes higher) USB thumb drives for that price. I will also add that the better, modern linux distros (like Linux Mint) handle these newer USB ZIP drives perfectly well, and can mount both PC and Mac-formatted disks provided you have installed the necessary format drivers for hfs/hfs+, etc. In fact the older ZIP drive I mention here that doesn't work with El Capitan on a Mac Mini works fine in linux (and I would assume Windows, at least up to Win 7 if not beyond). I use an Iomega brand bus-powered USB Zip drive all the time with my Macbook Pro and OS X 10.9.
I have zero issues. The drive mounts and unmounts just like like any flash drive.
The drive will even eject the disk automatically when I unmount the disk in the OS. I'll also add that I have a 'bondi blue' Imation USB LS-120 drive. These were popular when the first iMacs came out as a floppy drive replacement. I use this with my MBP somewhat frequently also, both to read/write floppies and LS-120 disks. I play with a lot of older Macs, and often times dowloading extensions or software on my MBP and then dumping them onto a ZIP disk is the easiest and most painless way to get the files to old computers. When I need to make floppies from images, this capability comes in really handy as the only way I know to do that is with a computer that has an internal floppy drive and is running OS 9 or earlier. Often, I'll dump a bunch of images onto a ZIP disk and then use my beige G3(which has both an internal floppy and internal ZIP drive) to actually make the floppies.
But, then, all that is probably more than you want to know. The short answer is find a USB(or Firewire) ZIP drive and you will be completely fine. Post Merged, Aug 5, 2017 -For many years I have been using a system with two Macs, one ancient and one new, a great old scanner, and two disk Zip drives. I'm an artist and I scan my watercolors with the old SCSI Epson Expression scanner connected to power PC, and then save the tifs or the jpgs on a zip disk with a SCSI connection. Then I can move the zip disk to USB zip drive and my MAC mini and work on it in Photo Shop. Iv'e never had a problem using the zip on the new hardware.
However recently my zip with the USB connection died and I haven't been able to find another zip drive that really works. I too hate to get rid of my old equipment.
Buy Zip Drive For Mac
Unzip all major formats With just a click, open all major, including, GZIP, VHD, XZ and more. Complete file management Easily find, open, edit, move and share your files, whether they are on your computer, network or cloud service. Protect your privacy Easily encrypt files as you zip to secure information and data. Create read-only PDFs and add watermarks to deter copying. Share anywhere Easily share large files by email, cloud services, social media and instant messaging. Quickly share links to your cloud files.