Iomega Corp, Roy, Utah has already won plaudits for its new Zip external high-capacity hard shell floppy disk drive, and it has now come out with an internal version that uses interchangeable 100Mb and 25Mb disks, in an attempt to forestall the 120Mb floppy standard that Compaq Computer Corp and partners are proposing (CI No 2,660). Iomega claims performance comparable with today’s hard disk drives for the Zip. The company has also won support from the PowerPC systems builder Power Computing Corp, which will be the first company to offer computers with built-in Zip drives. Power Computing will introduce the Zip drive as an option in its line of Mac-compatible desktop and tower systems, the Power 80, Power 100 and Power 110, from August. Computer manufacturers can either incorporate an internal Zip drive with existing 3.5 floppy drives or buy a Zip internal combo, which integrates the Zip drive and a standard 3.5 floppy drive in a unit that takes up one 5.25 bay, but the company gave no prices, either OEM or retail for the things.
