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To: Jon Tara who wrote (24523)	6/6/1997 1:47:00 AM
From: Martin Olsen	of 58324

"There is only one thing that IOM could do to win the LS-120 battle." I don't see this battle as such. This whole backwards compatibility issue is more a matter of convenience during the inevitable transition from those lousy 3.5" diskettes to _something_ else. If someone really needs a 3.5" drive, they can buy an external one for practically nothing. (not a terribly good option for laptop users, I admit, but still an option.) The 3.5" has been around far too long (just look at how hard drives, processor speeds, RAM, etc have increased in capacity/performance... then look at removable storage : 720kb --> 1.44Mb in th epast 10 years!) Something will replace the floppy. The issue is not yet decided but Zip has one heckuva lead. LS-120 is slow and expensive. As far as IOM needing to lower disk costs, $1 is an unrealistic goal. $6 or $7 I could agree with. Your idea of a lower cost, lower capacity disk is not bad, though. But overall I think you give backwards compatibility and the LS-120 waaay too much credit. Just my opinion... -Martin

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