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To: Guy Gordon who wrote (2700)	6/10/1996 9:33:00 AM
From: Young D.T. Nguyen	of 58324

Gordon, I think I am correct in this case... Read post #2674 by Ken Marcus. >Zip Drive, A potential standard purely by dint of market share, Iomega's sub-US$200 drive uses Bernoulli technology and Winchester heads to store up to 100MB on $19 magnetic disk cartridges.> I am quite familiar with the Bernoulli principle and also owned several Bernoulli drives. As I understand it, the ATOMM technology enabled high-density disk media. The Bernoulli technology allows fast spin of flexible media for fast read/write, and simple head construction (does not have to have precise tolerances as harddisk). I think the marriage of these technologies by IOMG design team that gave birth to the proprietary Zip technology - providing high performance at low cost. Without the Bernoulli technology in the Zip, I believe IOMG wouldn't have a strong patent case. But I confess that I do not know the design of the Zip in glory details. I certainly would like to get my hand on the Zip patents to understand in more details. However, experts have said that Zip patents are solid.

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