Zip for Nada

[SergntMac]

Zip for nada...Here's the scoop.

I have 20 years experience as a sales and marketing guy, mostly in high tech. I specialize in launching new products. I was one of the guys that launched Zip drives on the world way back when. This post in another thread turned on a light in a dim and fading memory bank. I was among many to subscribe to the Iomega Zip drive technology for additional storage space, when additional storage space was at a premium. The post reminded me of a large box in my garage waiting for recycling back into service as a usable device, to someone who would use it. Take a peek?

http://www.mercurymarauder.net/showcase/showimage.php?i=3816&c=3&userid=392

What you see, is the whole nine yards of Zip products.
1 external CDRW, A/C powered, USB connection
1 external Zip Drive, with A/C and battery pack, parrell port connection. (battery pack not shown)
1 internal Zip Drive, operates and identifies as an IDE device in BIOS.
All instructions, manuals and accessories for above (not all shown)
12 blank Zip 100 MB cartridges, with desktop carousel.

"Zip for nada" means I will ship this box to the first MM.Net member who sends me a vaild shipping address, and promises that they will use it themselves, or, to help others, but not turn it around on e-bay. This is the lone condition of shipping, make the promise and keep it, and this stuff is your's for..."nada". (If it shows up on ebay, someone here will out you, trust me).

The e-mail must come through MM.Net., to insure the winner is a MM.Net registered member. Mail sent via my public e-mail addy at AOL do not qualify.

I can't anticipate shipping costs today, but if it's higher than I expect, I may ask you to help out with that. If it's not too bad, shipping is on me.

This isn't junk, retail was 750.+ just a few years ago and it's still viable storage in some applications. It's used but in original OEM boxes, and complete. I usually toss stuff like this at a local recycle center aiding the handicapped, but they get enough of my crap and I'd rather see it go to work for someone here.

Ready...Set...GO!

[SergntMac]

Wow...One hour and we have a winner...Brute Force!

Congrats, Scott!

[ckadiddle]

Most of our several thousand PC fleet still have built-in zip drives here at the office. We are into year six of our three year PC replacement plan. LOL

[Mike M]

I jumped on the ZIP bandwagon pretty early, but I got bit by the "click of death".
Practically every internal drive I installed got the "click of death" but otherwise it was a great product. I think the recordable CD really hurt them and the price of HD storage also.

That was a nice thing you did, wish I got to my keyboard sooner!

[BLACKMARAUDER04]

Flash Drives killed the zip drives.

[Mike M]

Yeah to some extent, but when the ZIP drives were dying out, flash drives were still big money. I remember my first 64k flash drive, don't remeber the exact price but it was up there. I still have it and it still works, of course it is good for nothing.
I think Syquest or something close to that name came out with another zip like disk but they went out pretty quickly.
I owned 2 computer stores back then, I usually worked until 1 or 2 am building systems and repairing and upgrading. Times have changed!!!!!

[duhtroll]

I thought it went Zip, burn a CD, THEN flash drive.

CDs are like $0.07, so that's what I did for a couple years btw zip and flash.

[SergntMac]

That's how and why my collection of Zip stuff became available, flash drives and USB technology. I had a box of SCSI devices too, but sent that to the recycle center. Had to make room for my growing collection of Marauder parts.