Avatar Peripherals Reduces Price of Shark 250 to $199 After $50 Rebate.MILPITAS Milpitas (mĭl'pē`təs), city (1990 pop. 50,686), Santa Clara co., W Calif., a suburb of San Jose, southeast of San Francisco; inc. 1954. Manufactures include computers and paint. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 1997--Avatar Peripherals Inc. today announced a new price of $199 after $50 mail-in rebate rebate, partial refund of the total price paid for goods or services. In the United States, rebates were historically given by railroads to favored shippers as a return on transportation charges. for its award-winning Shark 250 mobile hard disk drive with mini-removable media. The Shark 250 suggested street price was reduced from $299 to $249, and the $50 mail-in rebate program has been extended through the end of the year. The new pricing and $50 rebate apply to Avatar's entire line of Shark drives, including the Shark 250 Parallel Port, and the newly announced PC Card version. The Shark 250 provides notebooks and desktop users with unlimited hard disk expansion in a portable drive. This drive gives the user much needed functionality, and is ideal for fast and easy backup, file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , expanded storage Additional memory in IBM mainframes that is not normally addressable by applications. Introduced for the 3090 series, the data are usually transferred in 4K pages from expanded storage to central storage (main memory). See hiperspace. , running large applications, data libraries and presentations. The Shark 250 mobile hard disk drive delivers 250MB of storage per HARDiskette media, that's 2.5 times the capacity of Iomega's Zip drive See Zip disk. (hardware, storage) Zip Drive - A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable 100 megabyte hard disks. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. . In addition, the Shark 250 uses technology that's four times faster, a form factor that's one-third smaller, and is one-third the weight of the Zip drive. Unlike the Zip drive, the Shark 250 connects to the computer with a single cable connection for both power and data without requiring an external power supply. "The $199 price makes the Shark 250 drive an affordable alternative to computer users considering purchasing a Zip drive," said Bill Mowry, director of channel marketing at Avatar Peripherals. "The Shark 250 is faster, smaller and weighs less than the popular Zip drive and is ideal for notebook and desktop users looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a portable backup, storage and file transfer solution." Service and Support Avatar Peripherals' products carry a 30-day money-back guarantee (through the point of purchase) and a one-year limited hardware warranty. In consideration of notebook users' needs, Avatar Peripherals has designed two additional warranty programs: Extended warranty The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. program for $49, and Premier Hassle-Free warranty program for $79. Product and Availability The Shark 250 mobile hard disk drive comes complete with an interface cable, software drivers, and one 250MB HARDiskette containing a collection of utility software. The 250MB HARDiskette media is available in a single-pack for $39, or a three-pack for $99. The Shark 250 drives and media are sold nationwide through leading computer retail stores like CompuUSA, Computer City, Egghead, Fry's, Future Shop, Sam's Club Sam's Club is a membership-only warehouse club owned and operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. History The first Sam's Club opened in April 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma in the United States.[1] Sam's Club is named after Sam Walton. and mail order catalogs. About Avatar Peripherals Inc. Founded in November 1996, Avatar Peripherals Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets truly mobile hard disk drives using mini-removable media. Avatar Peripherals products are available through leading computer retail stores, resellers, and major distributors in the U.S. and Canada. As a wholly owned company of Avatar Company Limited in Thailand, Avatar Peripherals has access to the global technical, manufacturing and financial resources of its parent company, which employs more than 350 people worldwide, and owns a large manufacturing facility in Bangkok Bangkok (băng`kŏk'), Thai Krung Thep, city (1990 pop. 8,538,610), capital of Thailand and of Bangkok prov., SW Thailand, on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, near the Gulf of Thailand. , Thailand. Avatar Peripherals Headquarters is located at 1455 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035, and can be reached at 408-321-0110. Sales information can be obtained by calling 1-888-GO-AVATAR (1-888-462-8282), customer support calls can be made to 408-953-0123. Visit Avatar's Web page at http://www.goavatar.com to learn more about the products and see the latest awards from such leading publications as boot Magazine, PC Magazine, and Windows Sources Windows Sources was a magazine by ZDNet. It lasted from c. 1993 – c. 2001. Staff Patrick Norton ran the hardware reviews section. Carlos Carrillo was the Assistant Editor and ran the Shareware reviews section. Magazine. -0- Avatar Peripherals is a registered trademark of Avatar Company Limited. Shark 250, HARDiskette, SharkSwap, and SharkEject are trademarks of Avatar Peripherals Inc. Zip is a trademark of Iomega Corporation (company, storage) Iomega Corporation - A storage device manufacturer whose major products are the Zip and Jaz removable disk drives and Ditto tape drives. They became popular with an early product called the Bernoulli Box. . All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Avatar Peripherals Inc. Danya Bahous, 408/953-0222 dbahous@goavatar.com or Candelori Communications Inc. Donna Candelori, 415/572-1776 dcandelori@candelori.com |
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