Fig 2
High-Density FDD, Optical Disk Drives as Standard Equipment in PC
(a) Hewlett-Packard mounts the Iomega 100-Mbyte Zip floppy disk drive into its Pavilion 7110Z home-use PC. Shipment began in April 1996.
(b) The Compaq Deskpro 5133 Model 1200/LS and 5166 Model 2000/LS, desktop models announced in March 1996, come with the 120-Mbyte LS-120 3.5-inch FDD as standard equipment. The LS-120 was jointly developed by Compaq, Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries, and Imation (formerly the data storage and imaging systems arm of The 3M Co of the US).
(c) The Woody PD home-use computer from Matsushita Electric Industrial began shipping in June 1996 with the firm's 650-Mbyte PD phase-change optical disk drive mounted internally. The photo shows the successor, shipped in June 1996.
(d) Fujitsu offered a model of its FMV-Deskpower home-use computer with an internal 230-Mbyte MO disk drive from November 1995. Photo shows the FMV-Deskpower TS MO Model shipped in June 1996.
(e) The P5-200 Multimedia, shipped by Gateway 2000 in June 1996, comes with a CD-R drive standard.
