Sheila:
Here is something positive.
European PC Vendors Adopt
Iomega Zip Drive As Standard
March 26, 1998: 1:59 p.m. ET
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (NB) -- By Steve
Gold, Newsbytes. Iomega International has
announced that three European PC vendors are
adopting its Zip drive system for inclusion as a
standard feature in their machines.
Plans call for the three PC vendors -- Siemens
Nixdorf International, Fujitsu, and Maxdata -- to
integrate Zip drives as a standard PC component on
their machines for shipment within the next few
months.
SNI will integrate the internal Zip drive into its
entry-level Scenic Mobile 320 notebook computer,
as well as the Scenic Mobile 710 high-end
multimedia notebook computer. The company also
has plans to include Zip for future products aimed
at the high end corporate market in mid 1998.
Fujitsu, meanwhile, plans to release a Zip PC
series for the German small office, home office
(SOHO) marketplace, which will be sold though
end user catalogs. The company will also include
Zip drives as a standard extra as part of its
European build-to-order program.
Over at Maxdata, meanwhile, the Zip drives will
be included as standard in the company's soon to
be launched Artist PC Office Zip Classic 200
megahertz (MHz) machine. Targeted at the
business and professional customer, this new PC,
part of Maxdata's Classic Line, will soon be
available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the
Netherlands.
Leslie Finn, Iomega International's OEM
(original equipment manufacturer) sales director,
said that the Zip drive is quickly becoming a
"must-have" storage system for today's home and
business PCs.
"As file sizes increase due to Internet and
multimedia applications, users are demanding ways
to more easily store, transport, backup, and share
files," he said.
As reported last month by Newsbytes, Iomega
struck a similar deal to this one with
Hewlett-Packard, for the Zip drive system units to
be included as standard in all of the high end HP
Brio small business machines sold across the UK
and Europe.
Iomega's Web site is at iomega.com
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