Episode 423: Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

[James]

James and John discuss eBay finds: dollhouse Mac, Chiat Day 20th book, iPod socks, and iMac prop. Rick walks us through using Zip disks with classic Macs, and news includes Designed by Apple, Get A Mac, and top 15 Apple ads.

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Zip Commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2ohjhlKg4

References:

http://www.jagshouse.com/zipMacPlus.html

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/iomega-zip-install-disk-v42

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death#Iomega_Zip_drives

Bernoulli’s drive video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqiahBKX7w

[Rick]

Thanks for having me on. BTW I just bought that American Girl Macintosh. Can't wait to see how I can hack it!

[Timbotronik]

Neat episode ! That was a fascinating look at zips, a seriously deep dive down the rabbit hole. 1997 was my year of zips, learning Photoshop and Illustrator at OWCC. Thank you Rick, James, John, keep em coming :) tim

[Jeremy Clayton-Travis]

A good episode, I remember when I upgraded to OSX on my G4 Graphite which had an internal Zip drive.

I tried erasing a zip using OSX drive set up and I think it erased the drivers on the zip disk itself. 

Not a good start to using Zip disks under the new OS. 

I never found a way of recovering the now totally blank Zip disk.