The Zip drive’s initial version could store up to 100mb of data on a disk and eventually a 250mb and 750mb version was released. The much more popular “floppy” storage alternative to the LS-120. Apparently this machine has quite a following though Īh, the Zip drive. Its a neat little machine but doesn’t have much practical use I can find today at least not for myself. Other then that I don’t have much to say about it. Lastly a cassette port for a cassette player for storage. The north American version like this one has a built in 300 baud modem which I believe that phone port may be for. We have a small reset button as well as a RS-232 serial port and printer port. Here we have the back of the computer with most of our ports. I’ve read that it is very easy on batteries and can go for 16+ hours on batteries. It is also powered by 4 AA batteries but also has a port for an external 9v dc power supply. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that its probably only capable of text display. The screen is a non backlit LCD and despite the age it displayed quite clear for me. It has no internal mass storage capabilities so for saving anything permanently you would need to use an external cassette player of disk drive. As I am primarily a gamer and this machine is pretty obviously not a gaming machine I don’t have to much to say about it but I did think it was kind of a neat little find. Apparently these machines were very popular with news journalists and other “on the move” individuals. These machines began to be sold back in 1983 and have anywhere from 8kb to 32kb of RAM. Also the much more successful relation of the LS-120 super drive the Iomega Zip drive and finally a number of gamepads from the king of PC gamepads in the 90’s, Gravis.Ĭonsidered the worlds first laptop computer I came across my model 100 at a Goodwill and purchased it for a couple of dollars, about $3 I believe and to my surprise on hitting the power button the thing turned right on.Īs you can see the model 100 is sort of like a giant calculator. Find someone with IT experience to get your solution going if you don't follow mine, but mine is simple.In this Odds & Ends I’m going to go over the venerable TRS-80 Model 100 a small portable computer. It would probably have worked on Windows 10 as well, but my Windows 10 desktop does not have an EIDE connector so I was forced to acquire the adapter spoken of. This page has a lot of drivers for the USB Zip drives, and I tried one of them on a Windows 98 Second Edition retrobox and it worked with the ATAPI Zip 250 connected directly to the motherboard's EIDE connector (no adapter required). No software 'should' be required as the PCI-to-EIDE adapter will operate the ATAPI Zip drive from the auspices of its own SCSI driver. Once you get that hooked up in Windows you will have access to your drive and Zip disks without any additional software. I got mine locally from a local used computer parts dealer: Purchase an ATAPI Zip 250 drive from a junk peddler on eBay. Purchase a PCI (or PCIe)-to-EIDE adapter for desktop computers. I also learned from this forum that there are no driver updates beyond Windows XP. Just plugging in the USB cable activates the drive. I was able to just plug in my Iomega 250 Zip Drive and download my date. I did learn through a forum that driver software is not required for the USB supported Zip Drives. I would advise anyone against subscribing to Driver Navigator. I will have to go to PayPal and get them to arbitrate. I have told them why I do not wish to continue use of their software and they keep trying to get me to keep it. Driver Navigator is continuing to try to get me to keep the software and is not wanting to refund my money, even though they state a 60 day 100 percent refund if not satisfied. Driver Navigator refunded my money immediately, without question. After subscribing to Driver Navigator and Driver Update, I learned this was not true. It gave the appearance that they could provide Iomega Zip Drive support. I went to the referenced address and found several companies offering help with downloading drivers.
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