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This month,a report by Disk/Trend Inc.,a Mountain View,Calif-based-market-research firm,noted explosive growth for the high-capacity floppy market.Shipments of high capacity floppy drives were just short of a million units last year and will exceed 5 million this year.By 1999,the high-capacity drive market will take 25.5 million drives,compared with 106 million 3.5-inch,1.44-Mbyte floppy drives.Though Zip drives,which cost about $200 and offer 100 Mbytes of removable storage,dominate the market,the Disk/Trend notes that competition is heating up.
"additional high-capacity floppy-drive formats now entering the market,some of which also provide backward compatibility for standard 1.44-Mbyte diskettes,are expected to make this product area a major battlefield of competing standards,as shipments move up to the projected 25.5 million drives in 1999,"said the reports author Jim Porter and Robert Katzvie
SOURCE ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES
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