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Non-Tech : Iomega:Zip drives - a "standard" for the PC?

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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (7)	2/17/1996 2:15:00 PM
From: Edward F. deSousa	of 156

I too would love to see ZIP drives as a standard for PCs. The question that remains in doubt still is whether purchasers of new computers will choose ZIP as an option first. As of now there are only two PC OEMs on record that offer Iomega drives as options--Micron and Power Computing. We do not know percentage of people requesting zip internals (Micron is mostly JAZ I believe). With HP and other OEMs which I think may be agreed upon but not announced we should get a better sampling to see demand. The external ZIP is obviously a huge winner, and disks are now more and more available, witnessed by the newspaper ads we are seeing now. The external is successful in no small part due to its attractive industrial design. Internal ZIPs will not get such support. The utilitarian aspect of the larger disks must sell the internal drives. Then a critical mass must be reached in order for burgeoning "compatibility" to evolve into "standard". FWIW I am a long term investor of IO since Jan95 and have two ZIP drives that have worked flawlessly since March and October 95. I am putting my money on the belief that Iomega will succeed. Go IO. Ed

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