Walk over to the old machine and drag it into the new machine. Repeat the process for every zip in your stack.
If the new machine has a cdrw or better a cd/dvdrw then you can back it up there.
After that, thank your lucky stars that you didn't wait any longer..
When the last zip drive finally finds it's way into the trash bin, we'll all be way ahead.
You got that right, TT.
About two months after I had first heard of ZIP drives I had the opportunity to install two of them.
Both were bad right out of the box!
Ever hear the phrase, "click death"? That's the term for what befalls a zip drive; it just continually clicks, trying to recognize the disk.
I soon found myself replacing these drives frequently, as I worked as a break-fix technician for a university. I even took a few of then apart to see if I could determine the cause of "click death". Much to my surprise, the transport (the mechanism that handles the disk within the drive) was made completely of plastic! Contrast that to a floppy drive; floppy drive transports are made out of metal.
I did find out that "click death" is caused by the read/write heads suffering some kind of damage from, say, inserting a ZIP disk into the drive. The heads then continually move back and forth across the disk surface trying to find the first cluster or file block, but they are damaged and cannot read from the disk. This may also, then, damage the disk surface so that any data on the disk is lost.
Based upon personal experience, I would recommend another storage medium.