Bought online for EUR 22.
At first I got worried because it was just clicking. I thought I got one with the click of death, But after some 15 minutes of several retries, it got quieter and eventually started loading disks.
Curiosity killed the cat. I was curious to see what’s on them:
The ones on left had no files, the 2 on right did. Mostly the F disk. The top one had some program called powerdvd 4.
On the F one, photorec found some TTF files (fonts), exe files, 4 second videos of motorcycle speeding up and fireworks, CompCore Multimedia inc. SoftPeg bitmap banner, and some random TXT files with variables and program descriptions.
Stored undeleted were game saves of following games: Etherlords, Gorasul, Hooligans, Operation Flashpoint (incl. exe), Renegade, Sacrifice, Serious Sam - The second encounter
There were also some spreadsheets with lists of games, and of course RAR archive with colection of generic porn.
The only interesting file is spreadsheet with list of compenents for a “new computer”. Most files were dates around 2002.
Case - Miditower ATX
MOBO - Microstar MS KT266 Pro2 RU VIA PRO266A
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Socket A
Cooler - Evercool MT2 Platinum Socket A DMI
RAM - DDR PC333 CL2.5 Kingmax 256MB
FDD - Alps 3.5" 1.44MB
HDD - Seagate ST340016A, Barracuda IV, 2MB (buffer), 7200rpm
GPU - Microstar MS8853 G3 Titan 500 Pro, 64MB TVout
Network - Ovislink
Found the Action Retro fan? He recently did a video about a zip disk device.
I’ve seen it, but that was just 3 days ago, I ordered this 13 days ago.
Glad I’m not the only one that gets tempted to buy random old hardware just to see what’s on it. Often times data ends up being entirely uninteresting or wiped, but a ZipDisk drive was one of the few times I got to see some stuff laying around. It was mostly just some small bitmaps of drawn ladies, but also a number of journal entries from an older gentleman who originally had the drive too.
That last bit seems like it would be of interest to someone who studies early 2000s history. I love neat little stuff like that that isn’t really private, but also wasn’t intended to be seen by anyone else.
Edit: I was doing some light searching on a few of the components to see if I could get an idea on whether this was a high end build at the time or not, and it looks like at least one item on the list (DDR PC333 CL2.5 Kingmax 256MB, the RAM) is no longer findable on the internet. Or at least I can’t find anything through DDG or Google, someone else may be able to. Neat example of how much 2000s internet just vanished.
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PowerDVD was, for several years one of the few ways to play a DVD movie on your PC.
Good times. Good times.
People were still using zipdisks in 2002?
I saw a band selling albums on zipdisks in ~2009 for hipster cred
I need one of those but USB compatible. I have a stack of disks whose data I’d love to retrieve.
You can get one.
Here’s the rear of this one:
The model is Z100USBV.
Hey OP, you forgot to add a rule to the title, just sayin’.
That’s not a rule.
It is one in our hearts.
Oh no!
Too late, the mods are on my way, hold on, I hear someone knocking on the door -
