In going through my late husband’s belongings I have found 9 old zip drive cassettes, but no zip drive.  I have no way to extract the data.  I am willing to purchase a zip drive, or rent time on a zip drive to burn CD’s of the data.  Please contact me directly at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  Thanks.

I don’t have one to lend, but I’ve got an old desktop Mac with a built-in Zip drive. I used it just the other day for a similar project. I’m happy to do the transfers for you if you can’t find a drive.

You might also want to post this request on Coastside Freecycle, which is probably full of zip-owning packrats:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coastside_freecycle/

Judi… I have a PC one never opened in the box…. I’ll give it to you for a trade… like of bottle of Maverick’s Ale… or a lasagna, or whatever….

...and I’d be more than happy to help set it up for you.

Kevin is awesome!  In the event his doesn’t work (and it should) I always call Strawflower Electronics to buy these types of things. 

And, we here at Reece Computers (shameless plug) always have zip drives laying around should we need to move data for one of our customers.  We just don’t sell them - we’ll move the data. 

But we charge for it - it looks like Kevin will only cost a beer!

Terri Reece http://www.reececomputers.com

Terri Schoenrock Reece - 10 May 2008 11:40 PM

Kevin is awesome!  In the event his doesn’t work (and it should) I always call Strawflower Electronics to buy these types of things. 

And, we here at Reece Computers (shameless plug) always have zip drives laying around should we need to move data for one of our customers.  We just don’t sell them - we’ll move the data. 

But we charge for it - it looks like Kevin will only cost a beer!

Terri Reece http://www.reececomputers.com

Doesn’t work???!!!! ;-)

It’s still in the shrink wrap, but indeed been sitting around with other un-used computer peripherals. I have used ones as well (Jaz, Zip, etc…) , sitting in the garage (my Murphy’s Law guess is the cobweb’d versions will work fine vs. the shrink-wrapped never used versions). The box I just pulled out still has a coupon affixed for discounts on zip discs… which I’m not sure they make anymore.

Thanks all - I have one in my possession now.