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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Naggrachi who wrote (42898)	1/9/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: David S.	Respond to of 58324

Zead, I regularly check the pull-out ads stuffed in the Sunday paper for IOM and INTC products (Atlanta). These generally include: Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Office Depot, OfficeMax and Sears. Most of these ads feature low cost computer systems intended to bring in the suckers on price and then switch them to higher priced units. That is why more K6 machines are advertized than sold. Generally computer system ads do not show a Zip drive included. However, at least one of the above and usually two or three show Zip included models. When this occurs, they regularly say: 100 MB Zip drive included or Iomega 100 MB Zip included as part of the feature list. Only 2 or 3 times have I seen a Zip-Built-in Logo added to the picture like the Intel Inside Logo. This was only in Sony machines and perhaps once with a Mac PowerPC machine. At stores I only see Zips included in display models for Sony or Apple machines. Did see Zip included on HP machines once in awhile, but not lately. Most of the above vendor ads also feature the sale of IOM add on products and disks on a regular basis. External parallel or SCSI Zips and Sony StorStation ads are the most common (the Sony product is actually an Iomega Ditto machine). Lately there have been more Jaz drive ads, ads for Gig-o-pack and 3 packs of Zip disks, and Zip plus ads. Regards, David S. Long on Intel and Iomega