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To: Young D.T. Nguyen who wrote (2695)	6/11/1996 12:38:00 AM
From: Ken Marcus	of 58324

Young, on this Mitsumi Superfloppy: this was mentioned a long time ago but they were or maybe still are in litigation with Swan. I'm not sure if that has been resolved. Basically, this is the question: are major PC OEMs going to leave their customers high and dry with one technology while they switch to the next? Not a chance. Question number 2: are consumers going to want some drive that none of their friends has? Why would they? Question number three: why would a PC maker put some drive that has no installed base? They wouldn't. Can this Mitsumi drive, if it ever materializes, get a base? Not likely, since, like the LS120, the capability to read the current floppies is useless in an external drive. Also, with spinning the current 3.5 floppies at a faster rate, there may well be unacceptable wear. IMHO, it is vapor. If it were to have achance it would have to be so SO much better than zip and cheaper to succeed. But, iomega can lower the price (which it has not done yet) or come out with the 200 meg zip. I am not worried, but I like everyone to have all the facts. ken

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