Nieuwe Iomega USB Zip drives

Iomega heeft een nieuwe Zip drive gereleased. Het ding heeft een capaciteit van 250Meg en wordt middels de USB poort aansluiting. USB Workshop heeft de press release en voor zover ik het begrepen heb heeft dit model vergeleken met oudere Zip drives een compactere behuizing:

Iomega Corporation today announced a new Zip® 250MB Universal Serial Bus (USB) drive for both PC and Mac users.At one inch thick and weighing just under a pound, the new slim and light Zip® 250MB USB drive, which can be fit into a pocket eliminates the need for larger parallel port or SCSI conversion cables. The new Zip drive is compatable with the company's 100MB disks. The new Zip® 250MB USB drive is compatible with computers running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or MacOs 8.1 or above, and provides hot ``plug and play'' (except when running Windows NT 4.0). The cable which allows the Zip® 250MB USB drive to be connected via a PCMCIA slot in notebooks running Windows 95 or Windows 98, is sold separately. Also with the PCMCIA connection, users do not need a power supply.

The Zip® 250MB USB drive ships today and is expected to be available by the end of Q3 1999 in U.S. and Japan. Availability in Europe is expected in Q4 1999. The estimated street price of the Zip® 250MB USB drive is at $179.95 (U.S.), with Zip® 250MB disks available at an estimated street price of $16.65 (U.S.) each for a package of six. The PCMCIA cable, which is sold separately, is expected to be available in Q4 1999 for about $39.95 (U.S.). The Zip® 250MB USB drive package includes one Zip® 250MB disk, a USB cable power supply, a USB guideline sheet and a USB ``Quick Start'' guide.

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Zelfde als altijd..wat conservatief van intel..
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The next version of USB will be two to three
times faster than previously planned,
according to the USB 2.0 Promoter Group.

At the Intel Developer Forum, the group on Tuesday
estimated that the target speed for USB 2.0 would be in
the 360-megabit-per-second to 480-Mbps range,
which is 30 to 40 times current USB 1.1 specifications
and two to three times the speed originally envisioned
when USB 2.0 was first revealed last February.

The USB 2.0 Promoter Group consists of Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent Technologies,
Microsoft, NEC Technologies, and Philips Electronics.

The exact speed of USB 2.0 is targeted to be a part of
the specification draft to be released at the USB 2.0
developers' conference next month, said Jason Ziller,
technology initiatives manager at Intel, chairman of the
USB Implementers' Forum, and spokesman for the
Promoter Group.

In any case, resellers should not plan on seeing USB
2.0 systems or peripherals for some time, Ziller said.

"We expect to see the first systems and peripherals
[with USB 2.0] in the second half of 2000," he said.
"We'll see broad availability after 2001."

While the speed of USB 2.0 will be similar to that of the
1394 FireWire interface, Ziller said he expects the two
to coexist in the market -- and even in the same PC.

"1394 is the connector for consumer electronics, like
video cameras [and] digital TVs," he said. "If you
envision a world where these devices connect to a PC,
you will see 1394."

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990901S0001

Hehe..*zucht*...zijn ze eindelijk slim geworden bij Iomega? Als die 250 USB hier kotm ga ik hem halen.

na een hele poos gezellig met mijn zip drive gewerkt te hebben,het volgende,ik steek er van de week een zip schijf in en wat blijkt,hij clikt,en pakt de schijf niet.
ik er mee naar de dichtsbijzijnde dealer ,waar mij werd medegedeeld dit is de (clik of death)en niet meer te repareren.....zeer jammer , want ik heb heel veel zip schijven (100mb) vol staan.ik zou hem op moeten sturen ......Maar naar wie????
zouden jullie me mischien,hopelijk verder kunnen helpen.....want ik zit er echt wel mee.....b.v.d.
een wanhopige Iomege gebruiker.

groetjes Peter Fransen
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