A few years ago, Iomega, the maker of Zip drives and other high-capacity removable storage devices, came out with a line of 40MB Clik! disks that they touted as an alternative to Flash memory cards for portable devices (they were later renamed PocketZip, and we actually have an old HipZip MP3 player that uses the disks around here somewhere). Now they’re making another stab at trying to compete with Flash memory cards once again with a new line of 1.5GB micro-drives called Digital Capture Technology that are about two inches in diameter. Iomega’s better find something that works, their high-capacity Zip, Jaz, and Peerless drives have pretty much been rendered irrelvant now that most new PCs come standard with a CD burner and it’s pretty unlikely that this new micro-drive will be cheap enough and in enough devices to convince many people to abandon cheap and plentiful Flash memory cards.
