Excellent! This is wonderful news. I am leaving for my trip to Egypt and will 
try and check this while I am there. If not it will have to wait until I get 
back. Thanks so much for the information.

Diane
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From: Jack Countryman [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Diane Rohlman; [email protected]
Subject: VST Zip 100 software found!

I spent a few hours searching boxes of old disks, etc. without finding one for 
the VST Zip Disk.  I then remembered I still had the hard drive from a 
PowerBook that died, but which had used that drive.  On that hard drive, I find 
not only the Iomega driver, but also a copy of the VST Zip Tools...including:
    Adobe Reader 3.01 installer
    Disk First Aid
    Disk Fit Pro Read Me
    Drive Setup
    Install Disk Fit Pro
    Iomega Installer
    System Folder
    VST Products.pdf
    VST Zip 100 ReadMe

The total size of those files is 28.3megabytes...so this must have come on a 
cd-rom, not a disk.  I’ll have to look through cdroms to see if I still have 
the original.  VST seems to have disappeared, so I am not sure where you can 
find these files available now.

That old PowerBook hard drive’s system folder has Iomega driver v 6.06 
installed.  I’m not sure what version gets installed by the installer that is 
part of those files.

Or you might try Iomega Zip driver version 6.04 or 6.06 to see if those work 
for you.  IomegaWare 4.02 is posted for download on their website...I’m not 
sure what version of their driver that includes.
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From: Jack Countryman <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:53:33 -0400
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Conversation: VST Zip 100 Drives
Subject: Re: VST Zip 100 Drives

I also have one of those VST Zip drive modules that fit the PowerBook 
3400/3500, but had loaned out the PowerBook 3500 (G3/250) with that drive 
module and only got them back recently.  From memory, there was a VST driver 
that came with the drive and which was used, rather than the Iomega zip drive 
driver to make those work.  I haven’t found the disk with that driver...its 
quite possible it wasn’t returned to me with the powerbook.  For now, I seem to 
have mine working (or at least recognizing its disks) by using the IomegaWare 
1.1.3 Zip driver v 6.0.4.  I’m not sure if any of the other extensions I have 
on the PowerBook are necessary for it to work or if there are other versions of 
the Iomega drivers that work.



On 4/3/10 8:45 PM, "Howard Katz" <[email protected]> wrote:

Are you sure it's not the drives that are the problem?  I seem to recall that 
the mechanism in those units weren't the most robust.

Howard

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Diane Rohlman <[email protected]> wrote:
I have several G3 wallstreet laptops. They came with VST Zip 100 Drives.
However, I cannot get the drives to recognize a zip disk. I have installed
the iomega software on the computers. Still does not recognize the zip. Is
there another driver that I need to use? I have looked online but not been
able to locate anything.

Thanks!
Diane


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