zip drive

[Elisabeth Roche]

Thanks to everyone for the information on the prices and brands of popular
zip drives. And all the comments on use of them in public access areas.

Bill- thanks!
Yes, I had forgotten the name of the zip drive our class received, it was a
Jaz and was 1GB. Thanks for clearing up my confusions here, I had decided
that $500 must have been the "donated" price tag:))

BTW- the class was a systems engineering multimedia course, we had great
need for that drive as we designed, re-designed, re-designed
(it-t-t-t-t-erate:)) our demo's over the semester. Lots of experiments with
graphics, sounds, action clips, etc. But no space to leave these files on
the computer lab machines.

At 11:52 AM 6/18/96 -0700, Bill Crosbie wrote:
>
>>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).
>>
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>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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