Iomega Reaches Major Milestone With Shipment of 25 Millionth Zip Drive.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1999-- 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. (IOM IOM See: Index and Option Market :NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) today announced it has reached a major milestone by shipping its 25 millionth Zip(R) 100MB drive. Iomega first introduced the innovative parallel port external Zip drive in 1995, and it was immediately met with enthusiastic reviews and won numerous awards from industry publications and trade groups. At present, more than 25 million Zip drives and 150 million Zip disks have shipped worldwide. The Iomega Zip(R) drive quickly became one of the most popular consumer electronic products introduced in the PC market. There is now an Iomega Zip 100MB drive available for virtually every type of PC connection including external parallel port, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. (for PC and Macintosh) and PC card connections, and connections for internal notebook, ATAPI (AT Attachment Packet Interface) The specification for ATA (IDE) tape drives and CD-ROMs. See IDE. ATAPI - AT Attachment Packet Interface and IDE interfaces. Five million Zip 100MB drives have shipped in just the last six months. "At 25 million Zip drives shipped worldwide, there is no other high-end smart, portable storage product that can claim such widespread acceptance. The Zip drive has changed the way people work by providing a robust platform to share, exchange, archive and transport information," said David Henry, vice president and general manager of Zip/Jaz product management, Iomega Corporation. "By utilizing the capacity of 100MB and the new 250MB Zip disks, telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. and exchanging information is easier. With thousands of service bureaus and business centers worldwide having Zip drives, it means business travelers only need to carry the disk instead of bound information, like papers or folders, or a computer with them on business trips." "Removable storage drives have a strong place in the market, allowing users the ability to save and transport large quantities of information easily and securely," said Fara Yale, Chief analyst, Dataquest. "Removable drives and disks have found a place in large and small companies to provide more flexibility in the way people manage information." The Iomega Zip(R) drive is the only portable storage solution that is widely available at most leading service bureaus and business centers including AlphaGraphics, Kinko's and Sir Speedy. Zip drives are used at home and work and have become a popular choice for any Windows- or Macintosh-based PC. Iomega Zip(R) 100MB drives can be found as a standard or optional feature in PC models from most leading desktop OEMs and from many notebook PC manufacturers, including Acer, Apple, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Micron, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Sharp and Siemens. In addition, the notebook Zip drive is available from CNF CNF Configuration (File Name Extension) CNF Conference CNF Conjunctive Normal Form CNF Could Not Find CNF Chin National Front (Burma) CNF Canadian Nature Federation CNF Cornell NanoScale Facility Technologies for notebook computers manufactured by Compaq, IBM and Toshiba; and from VST VST VLT (Very Large Telescope) Survey Telescope VST Vietnam Standard Time (Gmt+0700) VST Virtual Studio Technology (Midiware music production technology) 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. Extending beyond the PC to any product with a need for high-capacity removable storage, Zip(R) drives are also available for a group of non-PC products, including stand-alone scanners, printers and set-top boxes. About Zip(R) Drives and Disks Iomega Zip(R) drives and genuine 100MB and 250MB disks offer an easy to use and Y2K-ready solution for consumers to move, protect, use, share and backup information on their computers. Fast enough to run business and multimedia applications, the Zip drive brings a new level of performance to today's powerful personal computers. The Zip 250 drives also read and write to Zip 100MB disks, ensuring that current customers who use the new Zip 250 drive still have the ability to share information with family, friends and colleagues. Iomega Zip drives and disks are available worldwide through retailers, OEMs, VARs, system integrators, retailers and distributors. About Iomega Corporation Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets the award-winning Zip(R), Jaz(R) and Clik!(TM) drives and disks that help people to organize, 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 at 1-800-MY-STUFF (800-697-8833), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com. Iomega, Zip, Jaz and the stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. "i" logo are registered trademarks and Clik! and Zip 250 are trademarks of Iomega Corporation. All other products and brand names are the property of their respective owner. For maximum reliability, use only genuine Zip disks featuring the genuine Zip 100 or 250 symbols on your Zip drive. |
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