Pippin News: >>Subj: Howdy shorts!
Date: 96-06-08 14:17:35 EDT
From: Huibs pht
From MacWeek 6/10/96
zdnet.com
News: Iomega cashes in on Zip
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Seeking to dampen rumors that exaggerated its successes, Iomega
Corp. of Roy, Utah, this week said, contrary to published
reports, that it has sold about 2 million Zip drives since the
product's introduction in 1995.
News: Apple signs Norwegian Pippin licensee
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Katz Media will sell to Europe
By James Staten
Apple has signed yet another overseas licensee for its Pippin
Internet and CD-ROM platform.
Norwegian multimedia title developer and distributor Katz Media
AS said it plans to ship devices based on the Pippin to selected
European markets starting at the end of the third quarter.
Katz's Pippin will be priced between $600 and $700, including a
modem, keyboard and game-style controller. Optional peripherals
will include floppy and hard drives as well as a Zip mechanism
from Iomega Corp. of Roy, Utah, the company said. Katz is also
working on an infrared keyboard to replace the wired unit
sometime in 1997.
Oslo, Norway-based Katz said it plans to target home users, but,
like Apple and licensee Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp. of La
Mirada, Calif., it will also court corporate and vertical-market
customers.
Katz Vice President Thomas Virden said about 100 titles will be
available for the European Pippin at launch. Katz currently
markets 50 CD-ROM titles in Europe for the Mac and Microsoft
Windows machines.
Apple said Katz has a nonexclusive worldwide license, which would
allow it to go after other markets, such as Australia, where its
titles are prevalent.
Katz is owned by Olympia Finans AS Group, a privately held
holding company with businesses in publishing, graphics,
distribution and financial services.
Users can learn more about Katz's Pippin plans by contacting the
company at katz.no or post@katz.no.
The company also said it and its manufacturing partners currently
have the capacity to build up to 5 million of the removable-media
Zip drives in 1996.
In other news, Iomega recently added a new partner. Sentinel NV
of Wellen, Belgium, will manufacture Zip media. Sentinel's
cartridges will hit the streets in the third quarter.<<
>>Excerpts of Review - "make it EZ or ZIP?"
by Ben Myers
Ben Myers is a hardware and software reviewer based in Harvard, Massachusetts.
[Entire review may be seen at and was taken from
from a C|Net site: cnet.com ]
Iomega's ZIP Drive and SyQuest's EZ135 probably aren't the answer to every storage need you have, but for a quick fix, they're a dream come true. Iomega and SyQuest have driven down the cost of removable mass-storage drives to around $200 for about 100MB of data capacity, giving you limitless storage at your fingertips for around $20 per 100MB cartridge.We'll give you a close look at the two companies' products and tell you how well, or how poorly, they work.
You use a removable drive the same way you use a floppy: put the cartridge in the drive, copy or write information to or from it, then take it out. Neither the EZ135 nor the ZIP cartridges offer quite the shirt-pocket or purse convenience of a floppy disk, but in their slim carrying cases they're not far behind. The current breed of removable drives boasts smooth installation and convenience and provides decent capacity for the price of both the drive and cartridges.
After installing and testing both the Iomega ZIP Drive and the the /SyQuest EZ135 drive, we found that the simplicity of setting up and using the Iomega ZIP Drive--coupled with its light weight and slim form--make it the best choice for the road. The SyQuest EZ135 is somewhat bulkier and just slightly more difficult to operate.
We would rather sacrifice the extra 35MB of storage capacity you get with the SyQuest EZ135 for the convenience and superior design of the Iomega ZIP Drive. The ZIP's weight is just about half that of the EZ135, and the ZIP is more compact for travel. Best of all, it costs less. The ZIP Drive has a familiar feel: a typical power connector, a cartridge that resembles a thick floppy disk, and a floppylike eject button. << |
