Saturday December 4, 5:46 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Iomega Ends 1999 With Shelf Full of Awards From Leading Publications
Iomega's Clik! PC Card Drive Named One of the Best Gadgets of the Century
ROY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1999--Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM - news), a leader in smart, portable storage, announced today that it has received recognition and awards from a wide variety of leading publications.
Iomega's Clik!(TM) PC Card drive, the smallest storage solution that holds 40MB of data per disk, received international accolades when it was named the best gadget for 1999 by Stuff Magazine on November 26. The Scottish magazine commended the Clik! drive as ''a tiny disk drive designed to give computers extra capacity.'' The Clik! PC Card drive joins significant inventions beginning with products as innovative as the Model T Ford (1908), the Schick electric razor (1931), Xerox photocopier (1950) and the Sony Walkman (1979). That award caps off a year of honors for the portable storage leader.
''We have always strived to create products that meet the needs of our customers,'' said Bruce Albertson, president and COO, Iomega Corporation. ''These awards are an added bonus that highlight a product line that is easy-to-use, good-looking and takes our customers into the future.''
Iomega's Clik!(TM) PC Card drive was also named computer accessory of the year by Andy Pargh in his USA Today column on November 26. And, the November 16th edition of PC Magazine states, ''A useful alternative to a pocketful of memory cards is Iomega Clik!''
In addition to awards for the Clik!(TM) drive, in its November 29, 1999 issue, Business Week named the Zip® drive as having the ''Design of the Decade,'' and complimented Iomega for its innovative use of color. Also, in his October 14 column, Wall Street Journal reporter, Walter S. Mossberg said, ''Mass Storage: If your PC has a so-called DVD drive, which is good mainly for playing movies, that's fine. But there's not enough software on DVD to justify spending extra to get a DVD drive. Much more useful are Zip drives, which are cheap and let you save and transport large files.''
The October 8, 1999 edition of PC World had the headline, ''Zip Drive Goes on a Diet, Makes New Friends,'' with the article saying, ''Iomega's new 250MB Universal Serial Bus Zip drive shows off its stylish, thin profile and provides the cross-platform (Mac/PC) ease of installation that only USB can offer.''
Other top awards for Iomega products during 1999, include:
- Editor's Choice Award - Zip 250MB USB drive; Digital Camera
Magazine.
- Shoppers' Choice Awards Best Removable/Backup Drive - Zip 100MB
drive, Computer Shopper Magazine.
- WinList - Jaz 2GB drive, Zip 250MB drive, Zip USB drive and
DittoMax, WINDOWS Magazine.
- Best New Personal Computing Product Award - Clik! PC Card drive,
The West Australian.
- WinList - External Zip 250MB SCSI drive, Jaz 2GB drive, Zip USB
drive, WINDOWS Magazine.
- Editor's Choice - Zip 100MB drive, PC Magazine.
- Hardware: Best Removable Media - Zip 100MB drive, MacHome
Journal.
- Bigger, Faster and Backward-compatible - Zip 250MB drive, CNET.
''Iomega's Zip, Jaz and Clik! disks and ZipCD discs are the perfect solution for saving files, internet downloads and even music,'' said David Henry, vice president and general manager, magnetic products, Iomega Corporation. ''Our products are products for the future. Take digital music for example - unlike other digital music storage solutions that bind music to a hard drive, the Iomega solutions allows consumers to create and save their favorite music collections to Iomega disks. And with more than 30 million Zip drives and 180 million Zip disks shipped, our award-winning products are available just about everywhere.''
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