Fred, Allan Murdock, et al. I must applaud the mention of Betamax.
Please notice that Matsushita is involved in Zip drive production
as well as NEC. Take a look at any VHS video recorder, which beat
the pants off Sony's Betamax, and look inside at the works. Generally
speaking, (I believe 9 times out of 10) the works are made by
Matsushita. They are the ones that killed the Betamax, and the
formula was the same as Intel. Make the guts, let others put it
in their box and do the competitive marketing, etc. Now do you think
Sony is going to go against Matsushita again regarding these drives.
I think if Sony is smart they will deal with Iomega and Fuji and
make Zip drives, Zip plus, etc. Iomega has established the Brand name,
that's what sells once it is done. Just my thoughts.
Thanks by the way for the clarifications, if Zip is based on bernouli
then we have a strong foundation. Its not just speed that counts,
reliability is essential especially when you have 100 MB of important
data in that disk. Bernouli heads, unlike a floppy, float above the
disk and don't rub against it like a floppy head. Very very
important. Hard drives also don't touch, but that is easy as the media
is on a rigid platter. The Bernouli head has some aerodynamic
qualities that allow it to float consistently above a flexible media
without crashing into it or without miss reading/writing the data.
ATOMM doesn't give you that.
Regards, David S.
Long on Intel (even today) and Iomega
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