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Zip Drive Reverse Engineering -- Episode 338

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Tragedy has befallen Ben Heck, once upon a time he created some awesome levels for Doom and now he wants to revisit them, but he cannot! They reside on an ancient and old media type called 'zip disks', zip drives were made by iomega and came in various sizes from 100mByte up to 1gByte. So to reverse engineer it Ben and Felix are going to find an old computer, an oscilloscope and a parallel port connected zip drive to find out how it talks to one another and make it do their bidding! What old hardware have you tried to make work? Or reverse engineered? Let us know in the comments below!

 

 

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  • Zip drives were common a while back.

    Unfortunately they had a flaw, and if a zip disk had a flaw, it would destroy the drive heads..

    This in turn would kill the other zip drives that were inserted.

     

    Good luck.

    I think he should reside to the fact his doom scores are lost in the great 1's and 0's heaven, just like a radio transmission.

     

    Mark

  • in reply to mcb1

    We had a zip drive back in the day. I might still have one of the disks. Those suckers were expensive. We quickly switched to CDRWs when those became available.

     

    And I agree, I think I would have simply hung the drive and disk on the wall with a museum plaque by it - all that figuring out went so high and fast over my head I nearly got a nosebleed image

     

    -Nico

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  • in reply to mcb1

    We had a zip drive back in the day. I might still have one of the disks. Those suckers were expensive. We quickly switched to CDRWs when those became available.

     

    And I agree, I think I would have simply hung the drive and disk on the wall with a museum plaque by it - all that figuring out went so high and fast over my head I nearly got a nosebleed image

     

    -Nico

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