RE: Does "Ultra" Mean 12.7mm?
Zead, Brent, Tom, and all,
Ultra, Versa, Schmultra, Schmersa. The names aren't
related to the size of the Zip. These are the same
15mm versions that were sampled around at PC Expo
in NYC last June and were due out in September/October.
The 12.7mm versions are still a ways off. Iomega has
consistently said as much on a regular basis. If they
sprung a 12.7mm rollout on the public as a total surprise
at this time, it would be very much out of character
for them. Ultra and Versa are names that these notebook
sellers had been using well before today's announcement.
Patience, patience. <g>
I still don't get the Fuji/Sony thing. None of the
explanations I've read so far strikes me as all that
convincing. (I've read every post here and have
snooped around the Internet a bit looking for other
relevant info, without much success.) I guess we'll
all have to just sit tight and see what goes down.
I'm of course tempted to think that the HiFD will
bomb as have all the other Zip challengers, especially
if Iomega rolls out its inevitable retaliation if the
HiFD actually starts to be threatening, and Fuji/Sony's
reticence about price and so on makes me think they
may not have a winning combination here. Nonetheless,
we should all keep in mind that it's a certainty that
SOMEDAY there WILL be a successor to the Zip, and that
the boy who cried wolf desensitized his audience the
same way that we could all be desensitized if we
let the LS-120, Syquest, Shark, etc., litany lull
us into complacency. So we just have to engage
in watchful waiting.
Impatience, impatience. <g>
Cheers, Tom (long IOM)
P.S. Welcome back to Mary Cluney, another one
of us old-timers from the crazy days of mid-1996.
What ever happened to Guy Gordon? And to our most
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