Re: Zip Drives

[Eric Dietrich <madsci@tribeca.ios.com >]

In article
<area51-0805961658250001@pool054.max6.los-angeles.ca.dynip.alter.net>
Adam Rumack, area51@earthlink.net writes:
>>In article <318040F7.3C06@muohio.edu> User, User@muohio.edu writes:
>>
>>>1.  I have a question regarding Zip Drive use w/Apple IIs:
>>>Is there any way I can connect my Zip drive (currently in use on my
PC, 
>>>but, as you know, eminently portable) to my Apple IIc+?  How would I
get 
>>>it to recognize the drive?
>>
>>
>>A.  If your using the ZIP drive on a PC, and its the parallel port
>>version, then as far as I know, you can't connect it to any Apple II.
>
>
>Actually you can.  Iomega has cables you can buy that will plug your zip
>drive into a Mac or IIgs port.

Read carefully, Mr. Rumack.  This person has a Zip drive on a PEE CEE. 
Most likely,
this is the PARALLEL PORT version of the Zip.  There are two versions of
the Zip,
one which connects to a PC's printer port, and one that attaches to ANY
computers 
SCSI port.

If he has the SCSI version, then he may connect the drive to a SCSI card
in a slotted
Apple ][ (i.e. a IIgs or perhaps an Enhanced IIe).  If, however, he has
the Printer 
Port version, then he CANNOT connect it to an Apple II.

(Yes, there are Parallel printer cards avaliable for the II, but I have
never seen
one being used as a mass-storage device interface).

You can get parallel to SCSI converters, but I doubt they would work with
the II's.
Even if they did, you would be restricted to the speed of the parallel
part, and 
that would be, in my estimation, rather unimpressive.

Also, note that he writes that he wants to use the drive on a IIc+.  Both
the 
Apple IIc and the Apple IIc+ are CLOSED systems and have NO slots. 
Therefore, no SCSI
and no Zip drives.