The Pippin Zip dock is an expansion dock that had been announced for Pippin consoles.[1]
Hardware[]
Bandai discussed development of an optional dock for the Pippin @WORLD console with Iomega in 1996.[2] It would have contained a Zip drive from Iomega with the ability to read and write to 100MB disks.[1]
Release[]
Bandai Digital Entertainment announced the Pippin Zip dock on June 18, 1996,[1] and had scheduled to release it sometime in early 1997.[3] A prototype was reportedly tested in Japan, but it is not known to have been released.[4]
Gallery[]
An opened Pippin Zip dock without visible adapter board.
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A Pippin console with a developer ROM can boot into Mac OS from a Zip drive.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bandai Digital Entertainment To Offer Iomega's Zip Drive With New Internet Access Appliance., BusinessWire. 1996-06-18.
- ↑ Consumers in U.S. To See a New Pippin by Jon Swartz, San Francisco Chronicle. 1996-06-14. Archived 1996-12-20.
- ↑ @World: Pippin shippin' by David Morgenstern, MacWEEK vol.10-46. 1996-12-02. Archived 1996-12-20.
- ↑ Video Game Bible 1985-2002 by Andy Slaven, p.61.
See also[]
External links[]
- Zip drive at Wikipedia
