so i was looking online for cheap zip drives when i came across this thing
http://www.amazon.com/Castlewood-Removable-ORBIT2P01-Discontinued-Manufa...
it seems to be scsi and seems to work with macs.....
but before i get this, i need to know if it really works from professionals.
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2014, April 1 - 4:43pm
#1
Zip or castlewood orb
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2014, April 1 - 4:46pm
#2
and to make it even more specific i want this to run on my macintosh classic ii, running system 7.1
2014, April 1 - 6:14pm
#3
According to the manual (there's a link to it on the page link you supplied), this thing is a SCSI drive that interfaces to a PC/Mac via USB. It also says for a G3 Mac or newer & Mac OS 8.5.1 or newer.
If this is true you can forget about using this with your Classic II Mac right now.
2014, April 1 - 6:20pm
#4
yah....ok thanks....always good to talk to u guys for help
2014, April 1 - 7:32pm
#5
Castlewood made a big splash at Macworld a couple of years. They touted their stuff as WAY better than ZIP. And a year after they promised to deliver (can you say vaporware?) they did. A year after that they folded.
I can't speak about the quality of the product since I never owned one. But ZIP is still with us. They are cheap and equally unreliable. They work great for data transfer but don't trust the disks (or the drives either) for long-term storage/use.
They fail at about the same rate as traditional floppy disks/drives.
Gary