TECHNOLOGY - March 5, 1996
Times Staff and Wire Reports
3M to Introduce Diskette: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. will start selling a super-floppy computer diskette April 2 that it hopes will become the new industry standard. The LS-120 will hold 120 megabytes of information, more than 80 times that of a conventional 1.44-megabyte floppy. It will go toe-to-toe with Iomega Corp.’s Zip drive and a similar 128-megabyte product expected from Mitsumi Electric Co. in the second quarter. Analysts said St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M and its development partners will probably do better with the LS-120 than their previous attempt, the 20-megabyte Floptical.
