Hi All,

I hope this is the right place to post this request.

Because of some health problems, I can't go out much (on the mend now though) and someone gave me an old IBM Thinkpad 365XD, 40Mg RAM, 1 G Hardrive, 56k PC card modem, W98SE, which has become my only way of communicating with the outside world

Here is my problem:- I have an Iomega "Clik" Mini-Zipdisk pc card which takes 40Mg disks. As this model is no longer available, I am unable to buy replacement disks anywhere (even on the Net). Because of the small HD I need to store a lot of stuff.

Does anyone have any old mini zipdisks they are not using? I will be happy to pay for them (if they're not too expensive )

Thanks for listening? :-D

Jadag (Montreal, Canada)

"If you know you're going to lose - lose quickly!"

Hello and welcome to PCHF :-).

Unfortunately, I have no Mini Zip Disks and could not find them online. However, if you are willing to spend between $80 and $100 (USD) I have found a couple of refurbished items from Iomega that would be useful if you could not find any Mini Zip Disks

Refurbished Zip 750MB USB Powered External Hard Drive - $79.95 USD

Refurbished 120GB Iomega USB Desktop Hard Drive - $99.95 USD Best buy in my opinion

how about an external Hard drive? And welcome to pc Helpforums

Thanks for the quick replies.

Here's the problem. This model Thinkpad is from the "pre-USB" era and doesn't have USB capabilities. It has a parallel port, a serial port and 2 pcmcia slots (one I use for my modem card and the other is the mini-zipdisk card).

Most of the newer stuff is USB only. :-(

I can only hope there is someone out there who has upgraded to the larger units but still has their old mini-disks lying around somewhere.

Thanks

You can always get a usb to serial ciord. There cheap. Dont know if you have Radio Shack's up in Canada?

http://tmg4apc.com/index.php?cPath=25_38

Hmmm ..... interesting. I just have to check out if my old Thinkpad 365XD motherboard is "wired" to handle these conversion devices.?

Give me a day or so to find out.

So, this is what I found out;

Hosting a USB device requires a motherboard capable of supporting 32BIT (PCI) devices, my 365XD only supports 16BIT (ISA) devices. :

Nor can you use a PCMCIA card to USB solution as it requires a Cardbus enabled PC card slot which the 365XD lacks. :x

So, back to my search for these 40 Mb mini-zipdisks. If you come across a source, let me know.

Thanks