No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.
Zip drive, floppy capacity is usually only ~1.4GB
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A Iomega zip drive is a disk drive that is very similar to a floppy disk drive. Iomega is the company who produces these disk drives, and are compatible with Mac and IBM computer systems.
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An internal Zip will use about the same as a floppy drive. An Iomega external Zip uses a 5 Volt, 1 Amp supply. So 5 watts max.A USB zip is rated at 5V and 0.5 amp. V x A = W so, that would eat 2.5 Watts.That is during disk access and while ejecting and setting the disk. you could expect it to use almost nothing while idle.
Yes, Zip discs are considerably larger than standard floppy disks. A standard floppy disc is 90mm × 94mm x 3mm. Zip discs are much wider longer and thicker at 97mm x 98.5mm x 6mm. This is because internally the platter of a Zip disk had a much higher spin speed and required space to spin free of any resistance.
If you go to chickensys dot com they have a zip drive kit that you can install for $99. I have not been able to find a regular floppy drive tho.
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Store it in a flash drive or on your computer. DON'T store it in a DVD/CD, floppy disk, or zip disk; because you are constantly changing info. in Access.