Date   : Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:02:25 +0000
From   : Gareth Boden <Gareth.Boden@...>
Subject: Re: ZIP drives for BBCs

John Richardson wrote:
> 
> > > I have been thinking recently about trying to use an
> > > Iomega ZIP drive (parallel port version) with a BBC.
> >
> > Is the Beeb's parallel interface bidirectional? If not, I'm not sure it'd
> > work.
> 
> No it isn't. And nor was any Acorn's until around the A5000/A4. So you
> couldn't use the parallel port. But could one use something else - the user
> port, the Disc Drive port etc.

And the ZIP/SuperDisk question might just boil down to IDE/SCSI, if
anyone has solved that problem before. ISTR early parallel Zips were
SCSI inside and more recent ones are IDE and you can certainly buy SCSI
and IDE internal versions. So has anyone solved the SCSI/IDE problem
more generally for BBCs?

Or what about USB for BBC? <g>

Gareth