Here's an article in a trade rag re the new Micron PC with Zip standard as the A-drive.
I know it's not new to us oldtimers, but is something that new IOM investors needed to see.
From Info World Nov 17, 1997 p.10 by Dan Briody:
Micron is beefing up its desktop product offerings at Comdex this week by adding a high powered Pentium II based system, as well as teaming up with Iomega to include Zip drives as a standard feature in future Millenia desktops.
The new ClientPro 766Xi commercial PC, which will eventually replace Micron's XLU line, features Pentium II processors with Intel's 440LX chip set and 64 MB of SDRAM. The new PC will also meet the Wired For Management (WFM) baseline specifications as put forth by Intel, according to officials.
The WFM specs include Wake on LAN and DMI 2.0 for remote wake-up and remote-management capabilities.
A 766Xi with a 266-MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, AGP graphics, a 17 inch monitor, and a 3.2 GB hard drive is priced at $2,599.
In addition to the inclusion of Iomega Zip drives as the standard A: drive on its future consumer Millenia desktops, Micron will deliver the PCs with Norton Zip Rescue, which is a backup product that is designed to rescue all key files, in the unfortunate event of a harddrive failure.
The move to incorporate the Zip drive as the standard feature on these systems signifies a major step for Iomega in its push to replace the 1.44 MB floppy drive with the Zip drive.
The floppy drive will occupy the B: drive slot in the Millenias.
"We're throwing all out weight behind the Zip," said Jeff Moeser, vice president of desktops at Micron.
"The LS-120 drive is slow and expensive and there's not a lot of support for it," Moeser said, refering to a competing high-capacity drive.
Storage analysts also have been taking note.
"It's not yet a trend, but it is significant in that this is the first OEM to publicly endorse the Zip," said Fara Yale, an analyst at Dataquest, in San Jose, Calif.
Zip disks have a 100 MB capacity and are removable, so users can take large quantities of file back and forth between the home and office.
Micron Electronics Inc. in Nampa, Idaho, can be reached at micronpc.com .
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