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To: Josh Chong who wrote (9554)	10/21/1996 9:20:00 AM
From: Sam	of 58324

TO ALL FYI- I read this in the new Nov. 96 issue of PC World: On page 84... "When you think removable storgae, you probably think of the $199 Iomega Zip drive, which has become the de facto standard for the consumer and SOHO markets. Despite its proprietary storage techniques, it's won a lot of converts due to its low price and ease of use. But watch out for the Olympus SYS.230. Until now, magneto-optical drives have been an expensive choice for power users. Olympus, however, is leveling the playing field: Its new SYS.230 drive retails for $299. On a point-by-point comparison, the SYS.230 blows the Zip out of the water. In informal test of a shipping unit, the Olympus drive loaded and ran a large program twice as fast as the Zip. It stored data 15 percent faster and deleted data 5 times faster. Olympus's magnet-optical disc is also more cost-effective than Iomega's proprietary media: A 230 MB Olympus MO disc is $10 compared to $18 for a 100MB Zip diskette; this means storage costs of about 4 cents per megabyte for the SYS.230 vs. about 18 cents per MB for the Zip drive. MO media are also more reliable-magnets can't harm your data. The Olympus SYS.230 will read andy 3.5 inch 128 MB or 230 MB MO disc. There is one downside to the Olympus drive: It requires a SCSI drive for best performance. Olympus has a model that plugs into the parallel port, but it isn't as fast. Olympus web site is at olympusamerica.com List price: Internal SCSI $299; external SCSI with cable $359." What are everyone's thoughts on how IO will handle this? Looks like some good competition is starting to pop up in the marketplace. Maybe IO has something coming out similar to the SYS.230. Anyone have any ideas? Sam

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