zip drive

[Keith Engwall]

I believe they've also licensed out their technology to EPSON to manufacture Zip drives (EPSON can put their name on it, but must also include the Iomega "i").  The EPSON Zip drives were running about $185 at Comp USA last I'd heard (although that might have been a sale).

Keith



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From: 	Bill Crosbie[SMTP:crosbie at AESOP.RUTGERS.EDU]
Sent: 	Tuesday, June 18, 1996 1:54 PM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: zip drive


>One problem of providing the drives is compatibility.  While Iomega is 
>the market leader, I have no idea if it is very dominent, and each maker 
>has it's own technology (the disks range from 100 mb. on up in size, 
>depending on the maker).
>

Jim and everyone else... :-)

Reports from Infoworld indicate that Iomega (Zip's maker) has just landed
deals to have Zip drives included as standard components in a number of PC
manufacturer's offerings.  It seems that they are well positioned to become
a standard.

Also - Zip drives have been seen for at least as low as $190 (US) with
cartridges (disks?) running about $20 (US).  Someone had mentioned a $500
price tag, but I think that is for the Ziup's big brother, the Jaz drive,
which can handle up to 1GB of Data.
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