Ultrasmall Iomega drive due
Addonics Technology's $249 PC card device stores 100MB, the same amount as a Zip disk.
Addonics Technology has developed a pocket-sized Zip drive for notebook computers that holds up to 100MB
of data.
The PocketZip, which Addonics bills as the "world's smallest Zip drive," measures 7 by 4 inches and weighs 13 ounces. It can draw power from the notebook's battery, unlike standard Zip drives, which require an outside power source, and store as much data as a standard Zip disk.
The drive comes in a PC Card design and plugs into the PC Card slot found in all notebook PCs.
Removable storage devices are increasingly replacing floppy drives as consumers' preferred method of backing up important data on PCs. Iomega's Zip drives are the most popular of these devices, but have recently come under fire for a series of performance problems.