Tell us WHY? it sounds like you are trolling at this point (no I am not trying to make anyone mad here- it's just frustrating to see points like this with nothing to back them up). Please tell us why you think that a parallel ZIP (or any Parallel port device is "bad)
Not him, but...oh god, where to start?
Click of death, fragile media, per-megabyte ridiculously EXPENSIVE media, horrifically slow seek time, pathetic media capacity (even the 750's are just silly)...ah, what else...portability (seriously - yank a USB thumb drive out versus chasing down the cables for a P-port zip, then hope you have outlets close enough wherever you take it, etc.)...
Y'know you can talk about grandma's '486 with no USB ports and oh goodness what do we
do when we have to back her data up??? but at the end of the day, if you're doing that, there's at least a couple of solutions better than that. Going all the way back to P90 machines (and possibly before) you've got boards with PCI slots - if you've gotta get the data off, and the machine can't be replaced for whatever reason, bang a PCI USB card in...
There are many, MANY good reasons to ditch the P-port zip. One for keeping I'll grant is if you need a backup solution on a machine that MUST stay up...but even then you can drag a notebook to the jobsite and use a p-port to rj45 and a crossover cable, etc.
Yeah, I don't get on my high horse about too much but for goodness' sake back up your data, format those disks and reinstall that zip drive in the trashcan
