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To: Senthil Sankarappan who wrote (4951)	12/8/1998 4:27:00 PM
From: Linda Pearson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

ON COMPUTERS Technology's march produces ever more ideas for gifts washtimes.com <Taking off this year is the LS-120 disk drive standard, pioneered by Imation (www.imation.com) and available in both internal and external versions for the PC, and a Universal Serial Bus version for the iMac and other Apple Macintosh computers equipped with USB ports.> <Still there in the storage race is the Zip drive from Iomega, also available as internal and external drives for PCs and traditional Macs, and in a USB version for iMacs. If you have a notebook computer, there's a good chance you can find a portable Zip drive to slip in an available drive bay.> What's with this? "Still there" But, This is good: <You could walk into just about any Kinko's, for example, and work on one of its computers from your Zip disk, a boon for finishing off last-minute presentations and the like.> If this was posted before, excuse me... Linda

To: Senthil Sankarappan who wrote (4951)	12/8/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: Linda Pearson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

The Fifth Annual Readers' Choice Awards currents.net <Hardware Hodgepodge If there is a single phrase to describe what happened in this year's hardware survey, it is standing pat. One loser managed to lose even more: Last year SyQuest did poorly in the Removable Storage category against perennial winner Iomega. Headed for another poor showing in 1998 and looking at some bleak prospects in the marketplace, SyQuest pulled the plug on itself before all of our ballots were counted. (See "In Search of SyQuest" in Product News on page 13.)> Linda