Powerbook 180c to zip drive. Is it possible

Is there a way of connecting the powebook 180c to an iomega zip drive?

Dan
Welcome to the Discussions.
The leftmost port under the rear cover (seen from behind) is marked on the body of the PB with the SCSI symbol. The special high-density HDI-30 port is used by Apple in place of the wider DB-25 on desktop machines. You can connect a Zip drive to the PB, but there are two considerations:
1) In most cases you need only a special cable, HDI-30 to CN-50 (Centronics) with a light grey jacket (P/N 590-0717-A), to make the connection. The 30-pin connector at the PB end has only 29 pins, deliberately. This should be the end of the matter.
2) However, because certain of the PowerBook range do not supply termination power to an external SCSI daisy-chain (even one of a single device), and the PB 100 family is one such, you need rather an adapter, HDI-30M to CN-50F, a passthrough terminator CN-50M to CN-50F, and a standard CN-50M to CN-50M peripheral cable such as that used to connect the devices after the first in a daisy-chain attached to a desktop Mac. The adapter should preferably be switchable between positions marked DOCK and SCSI. In DOCK mode all 30 pins are active. Use the SCSI position, which has pin 30 switched out to provide the condition in 1) above. If the adapter is for SCSI only, pin 30 should be absent. The passthrough terminator attached to the adapter provides the required termination.
If you have survived the explanation this far, have the necessary driver for the Zip drive on the PB, and have the needed cable and connectors, you should have no trouble in mounting the Zip drive on the desktop of the 180c.
Apple IIe; 15 x 68K; 7 x PPC; 5 x G3 System 6.0.8 to OS 10.4.x

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