What is a Zip drive?
Q: What is a Zip drive?
A: A Zip drive is a data storage device.
Q: When was the Zip drive introduced?
A: The Zip drive was introduced in late 1994, by the company Iomega.
Q: What capacities of disks did the Zip drive originally support?
A: The Zip drive originally only supported 100 MB disks.
Q: What higher capacity disks do later versions of the Zip drive support?
A: Later versions of the Zip drive support 250 MB and 750 MB disks.
Q: What kind of drives are able to handle all lower capacity media?
A: Generally, higher capacity Zip drives are able to handle all lower capacity media.
Q: What are the different ways Zip drives can transmit data to the computer?
A: Zip drives can transmit data to the computer through internal drives with IDE and SCSI interfaces, and external drives using SCSI, parallel port, or USB interfaces.
Q: Are Zip disks interchangeable with regular floppy disks?
A: Although Zip disks have a similar appearance to regular floppy disks and can fit into the same slot, they are not interchangeable.
