Iomega's 100MB Zip Built-In Drive is the Preferred Choice of Businesses; Iomega Teams with Leading PC Companies to Offer Zip Solutions for Business Storage

Business Wire, Jan 29, 1999

ROY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 29, 1999--Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) today announced that its award-winning Zip(R) Built-In(TM) drive is becoming the preferred superfloppy solution for businesses.

Major companies like United Airlines and universities such as Brigham Young University are choosing Zip(R) 100MB drives as the preferred business solution that allows their PC users to be more productive and meet the increasing need for removable storage.

"Today, the ability to share data is vitally important to consumers and business users alike," said Bob Amatruda, senior analyst, tape and removable storage at IDC. "With over 21 million drives and more than 125 million disks shipped, the Zip drive has become a key data interchange and backup tool."

Desktop Solutions

The 100MB Zip(R) Built-In(TM) drive is now being incorporated as a standard or optional feature in business desktop computer lines offered by leading PC manufacturers.

-- Apple offers Zip drives as a standard feature in several G3

Desktop and MiniTower System Configurations, and as an

option across the entire G3 Desktop line.

-- Compaq's Zip Option Kit is available for all DeskPro series

worldwide.

-- Dell offers the Zip drive standard in several Dell Optiplex

Desktop models and as an option in all Optiplex models.

-- Fujitsu offers the Zip drive as an option in its Lifebook E

Series computers.

-- Gateway offers the Zip drive as an option in its E series of

managed desktops.

-- Hewlett-Packard offers a Zip drive option kit for its Vectra

commercial desktops and Kayak workstations.

-- IBM offers the Zip drive as an Options by IBM accessory,

available through Authorized Assembly Partners and

authorized resellers worldwide. Zip drives are available for

15 commercial models in its PC 365, PC 300GL, PC 300XL, PC

330/350, and PC 300PL lines.

-- Micron offers Zip drives as an option across the Client Pro

line.

-- NEC Computer Systems Division offers the Zip drive as an

option across its PowerMate line of desktop PC's.

-- Sun Microsystems has developed drivers for using Zip drives

with its Solaris OS on Sun workstations.

-- Toshiba offers the Zip drive as an optional feature in its

Equium line of desktop computers.

"Commercial IT managers have found that Zip drives and disks address data management issues such as personal user backup, archiving and transporting large files," said David Henry, vice president, Zip product management, Iomega Corporation. "In today's virtual organization, external partners and even some internal employees are not on the network, file sizes are growing and many companies have policies limiting the size of e-mail attachments. With all of those things, - plus the increasing pressure on bandwidth for transferring large files, such as Internet downloads and the lack of network capacity for each user - there is a strong justification for Zip drives on the corporate desktop."

Notebook Solutions

Iomega Zip(R) 100MB drives can be found as a standard or optional feature from many notebook PC manufacturers, including Acer, Apple, Chicony, Clevo, Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Micron, 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.

-- Apple offers Zip drives as an option for Apple's PowerBook

users with media device bays.

-- CNF provides Zip drive solutions for every Toshiba notebook

with a SelectBay.

-- Dell now offers Zip drives as an option for the Latitude CP

and CPi notebook lines. Zip drives are also available across

the Inspiron Notebooks series.

-- Hitachi VisionBook 800 Series now offers the Zip drive as an

option in its Corporate Performance Notebook line.

-- IBM offers the Zip drive as an option for the ThinkPad 600

notebook computer.

-- Iomega branded notebook Zip drives are now available for

certain IBM, Toshiba and Compaq notebook computers.

-- VST Technologies offers Zip bay drives for notebooks

including the IBM, 600,765 and 770, Fujitsu and NEC Versa

series.

Zip(R) 100MB drives are now available in PCMCIA-Zip drive solutions for any notebook computer with PCMCIA connections from the following manufacturers:

-- Addonics

-- Archos

-- Microtech

Small Business Solutions

The following leading PC companies are incorporating Zip(R) 100MB drives in their latest small business computer systems:

-- Compaq offers Zip(R)Built-In(TM)as standard in their

Prosignia 310 and 330 series and as an option in all other

Prosignia models.

-- Dell offers the Zip drive standard in many models of their

small business Dimension Desktop line and Zip is optional in

all other models. The Zip drive is included as an option

across the Inspiron Notebooks series.

-- Gateway, Inc. includes the Zip drive in its GP business line