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

To: William R. Polk who wrote (55955)	6/11/1998 8:26:00 AM
From: Dwight Griffin	Respond to of 58324

<<According to Dataquest, last year Compaq shipped 10.1 million units worldwide. The "personal line" (i.e. Presario) is said to be about 20% of CPQ business, so you can estimate 2 million Presarios worldwide. Don't know yet if all the new SKUs announced by CPQ are worldwide or just North America. While a breakdown of sales per SKU are certainly available, it is rarely available for free. These days the lower priced SKUs (non-Zipped) are the ones that are grabbing the most market share. My quesstimate would be somewhere around 50%. That leaves about 1 million units to be sold over the next 12 months with Zip.>> Thanks for the feedback on volume estimates. It is important to try to quantify this Presario announcement. Certainly, increasing sales by 1million units (or somewhere in that range) is extremely positive. If this move convinces some other manufacturers to increase zip penetration, then the turn around for IOM may have begun.