Smart Moves
Joe,
At the risk of bandwidth clutter, I feel obliged to
send you my congratulations. Twice. Once for your
short coup and price prediction, and once for your
conversion to Iomega idiocy. As with you, the quality
posts to this thread were what convinced me finally
that the Street is wrong to doubt the Zip's ultimate
ownership of the floppy slot. Yesterday's PC Expo
press conference confirmed my guess that Iomega is
rolling out a laptop Zip, which clinches things,
as far as I'm concerned.
Your conversion to long-term advocacy confounds one
of my earlier predictions, though. I said that you
and the other smart shorters would make your profits
early on, then we long-termers would make ours down
the road. Wrong! By switching over now, you're
going to make your profits TWICE. I hate you, you
sly fox. Thanks for the lesson in knowing when
price gets ahead of fundamentals as a winner
emerges. Where do I send in my subscription
to the Joe Rizzo Investment Newsletter?
A hearty welcome aboard also to Dale Stempson. Like
you, Dale, I'm a little grayer than the youngsters among
the posters here. Brace yourself for something of a
roller-coaster ride, though, and watch your diet.
Such activities can put a strain on the hearts of
old coots like us.
Cheers, Tom
P.S. Enjoy your New Blue (as opposed to Big Blue)
Zip drive, Joe. Get the SCSI if you can. The
parallel version can be slow in certain machines,
whereas the SCSI is much more reliably fast. That
makes your Zip less portable--you'd have to have
their parallel-to-SCSI cable to plug it into a
PC without a SCSI card--but it makes your purchase
a safer buy. |
