"There is a major cost to poor quality, " admits Ted Briscoe, Iomega's Zip drive chieftain.
Iomega says that it also intends to keep the 100MB Zip drive and disk on the market.
People who once considered a Zip drive indispensable are neglecting to include them when upgrading their PCs.
FotoShow was essentially a Zip drive that would let you display digital photos on a TV screen.
Our model packed a 20GB hard drive, a 6X DVD-ROM drive, and a standard 100MB Zip drive.
Iomega's incredible growth came almost entirely from just one product: the Zip drive.
Iomega's just-announced 250MB Zip drive is set to take over as the capacity leader -- beating its largest competitor by 50MB.
We need a hard copy and zip drive with the essentials our kids would need if we were suddenly no longer with them.
When the Zip drive first hit the market, PC hard drives that held about one to four gigabytes--in contrast to the current standards of 40 to 80 gigabytes--were fairly common.
And while the new Zip drive -- like its 100MB older sibling--lacks compatibility with 1.44MB floppies, it is compatible with the approximately 100 million 100MB Zip disks that have already been sold.
While everyone knows about the old stand-bys for back-ups, such as using CDRs or a Zip drive to store your information, or even e-mailing a file to yourself, new technology makes backing up even easier.
In April, the public learned that towards the end of her IDF service, a secretary in the office of the commander of Central Command named Anat Kamm copied some 2, 000 highly secret documents onto her zip drive.
The Zip drive itself is also likely to undergo some expansion over the next year or so, to meet threats from new competitors like Sony, who has announced it will start shipping a 200- megabyte drive sometime this year.
Even though Iomega won the battle of removable storage--it bought out the assets of its main rival, the bankrupt SyQuest , in late 1998--and its Zip drive is a de facto standard for PCs, Porter says the company made a critical error by selling the drives at a low margin, thinking profits would come from the sale of the disks.
The company claims that performance of the new drive and media should improve a bit on the current batch of Zip drives (except for the faster Zip Plus drive, which is being discontinued).
Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.
While Iomega has done a good job of building its Zip disk brand over the past several years, it made a critical error when it reduced the prices on the drive and pinned its hopes for a long-term revenue stream on sales of disks.
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