That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.

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With one touch, the user can transfer photos from the camera's insert to a Zip disk for long-term storage, or send them via e-mail.

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While Iomega has done a good job of building its Zip disk brand over the past several years, it made a critical error when it reduced the prices on the drive and pinned its hopes for a long-term revenue stream on sales of disks.

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Iomega says that it also intends to keep the 100MB Zip drive and disk on the market.

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Essentially a floppy drive on steroids, the inexpensive Zip stores 100 megabytes--or about 70 times the capacity of a standard floppy--on a single disk.

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