Kevin, It is the price of advancing technology. Last month as a matter of fact I threw out 3 250mb zip drives and over twenty disks. One was a SCSI model, one was a Parallel model and one was a USB model. All were in excellent working order. I did keep one USB model for the time being. I stuck it in a drawer and I might possibly use down the road. But then again I might never need it. I had transferred everything onto DVDs. They represent when I bought them roughly one thousand Canadian dollars. :-() Bill