Why would you even want to use it? Even the smallest and slowest USB drive will be far better alternative.
Zip drives? Wow that's like 20 year old technology
why would you even need that?
If I remember rightly they were notoriously unreliable too.
I bought them about 13 to 14 years ago and used it for back-up. I've looked after it well. I don't see anything wrong with trying to use it for back-up.
Why should we keep buying something, only 5 years later, got to throw it all away just because technology moved on? No wonder we've all hurt our home planet with all the stuff we don't want anymore. I may have a Nikon DSLR, but I still got my Minolta X-700 35mm SLR, that's gotta be like 30 years old, and as long as there is still some 35mm film around, I don't see why I can't keep using it. What am I supposed to do? Say "Sorry Earth" and throw it in the bin that ends in the landfill? If it's still working, may as well still use it, after all it's been paid for, I got so many Zip diskettes that are still in good working order, so I may as well use them.
I know people will point out that USB is better than Zip, but that's fine for those who got to save files after files after files after files that are worth GBs after GBs, I still save some word processor files that are hardly worth more than half a MB to my still working 1.44MB floppy disk. i like to organise my files and save them to single Zip diskettes. For example, a friend asked me to take photos of her and create a personal calendar for her to give to her then boyfriend for Xmas, the whole project is hardly more than 50MB or something like that, and can fit on one Zip file, which I then label it and file it away somewhere.
I'm sorry you find my use of Zip 100MB disks to be, what? outdate and laughable while you find using USB cool, well excuse me, I do use USBs for photographic files that are too large for Zips, let alone CDs, and therefore I have nothing against USBs, but for me, my way still works, and I'm sure you know the saying: "If it isn't broken, don't fit it." My Zip diskettes is still useable so I don't see why I should stop using it and change it.
I'm planning on building my own computer, if I opt for 32 bit, I'll try to find any drivers for Zip diskette that I can still use, but if I want to use more than 4GB of RAM for graphic design work, I suppose I may as well give up Zip, but I've used my Windows 98 computer for years, and it feels good.