They're pushing the pricing to the point where it will be tough to say no....
M2 PRESSWIRE-17 March 1999-IOMEGA: Iomega reduces price of popular Zip 100MB drives (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Iomega International today announced it had lowered the price of its award-winning Zip 100MB SCSI and parallel port drive by 10% to GBP 89. In addition, the estimated street price of the 100MB Zip USB drive decreases from GBP 119 to GBP 99. These price drops are part of Iomega's strategy to position itself as the world leader in smart, portable storage offering high capacity, flexibility and the highest performance available to the market at affordable prices.
"This price reduction is driven by the products' universal adoption by the users of more than 22 million Zip drives," said Ulrike Tegtmeier, Zip & Jaz Aftermarket Director. "We are committed to providing our customers with the best value, easy-to-use removable storage, giving them a complete solution for moving, sharing and protecting their critical information."
With the addition of the Zip USB drive and the Zip 250 drive, now there is a Zip drive for virtually every desktop and notebook PC, iMac, G3 or Macintosh computer, internal or external, with every common interface - parallel port, SCSI, USB, ATAPI and PCMCIA.
Fast enough to run business and multimedia applications, the Zip drive brings a higher level of performance to today's powerful personal computers. Iomega Zip drives are available worldwide through retailers, OEMs, VARs, systems integrators and distributors. Zip drive users can rely on having access to their important Zip disk-stored information, virtually anytime, anywhere.
Iomega Zip 100MB drives can be found as a standard or optional feature in PC models from all leading desktop OEMs and from many notebook PC manufacturers, including Acer, Apple, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, NEC, Sharp, Siemens Nixdorf, and UMAX. In addition, the notebook Zip drive is available from CNF Technologies for notebook computers manufactured by Compaq, IBM and Toshiba; and from VST Technologies for notebook computers manufactured by Apple and IBM. Iomega-branded notebook Zip drives are now available for certain IBM, Toshiba and Compaq notebook computers.
About Iomega Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets the award-winning Zip& Jaz, clik! and Ditto drives and disks that help people to organise, manage, create, exchange and share their important information. Used in homes, businesses, government, education, and by creative professionals everywhere, Iomega storage solutions are the enabling technologies preferred by millions. The Company can be reached in Dublin at 353-1-4105 135 or 0800 973194, or on the Web at iomega-europe.com or visit the Iomega press site at www.iomegaeasy.com
Iomega, Zip, Jaz, and the stylised 'I' logo are registered trademarks of, and Ditto and Clik! are trademarks of, Iomega Corporation. For maximum reliability, use only genuine Zip disks featuring the genuine Zip symbol in your Zip drive.
CONTACT: Paul Seaman, Iomega International Tel: +41 22 8797 240 Fax: +41 22 8797 452 e-mail: seaman@iomega.com Neil Foster/Ruth Speakman, Bite Communications Tel: +44 (0)181 741 1123 Fax: +44 (0)181 563 1324 e-mail: iomega@bitecomm.co.uk
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