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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?

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To: Young D.T. Nguyen who wrote (3982)	7/2/1996 5:06:00 PM
From: Young D.T. Nguyen	of 58324

Mark , I hit the Submit too early on the previous post. Here is my complete response to your post. Regard. "I agree with Phil, I personally know of NO ONE with any Iomega drive let alone a ZIP/JAZ/DITTO drive. I am a techie surrounded by ultra-techies and still have not seen anyone with an IOMEGA DRIVE. I know of know one who is even thinking buying one. It is a nice product for a certain sector of the market just as CD-ROM drives are (I know of very few that have those either). The biggest buyers of PCs are businesses and businesses are not looking to spend extra $$ for those "fancy items". Funny, but don't know of anyone who does not have a CDROM. Honest! I can't hardly find a desktop PC in store or catalogs without a CDROM. Are we living in the same world? Nearly all software are now distributed on CDROM. (Microsoft has even discontinued shipping software on 1.44 FD a while back). If CDROM is just a nice product for a certain sector of the market as you say, then how do folks buy and install new software? Essentially all new PCs now comes with bundled software on CDROMs, and all new software I bought recently came in CDROMs as standard. Perhaps you are a software developer, not a PC user. I am surrounded by PC users, and they all need/want Zips and more fast and cheap portable storage. The huge demand for Zip and "best PC product introduction ever" title speak for itself of the needs by PC users for this new media. Back when a 44MB Bernouilli drive cost $2000 each ( I bought several), people were buying them because they need more portable storage. Now Zip only cost $150 for 100MB and everyone can afford them. For your information, the Zip and similar portable data storage are not "fancy items" in business and industries. It is a necessity for productivity and work efficiency improvements. That has been the drive for bigger and bigger harddisks to store more and more data, and businesses were willing to pay more to get the extra capacity - until volume brought prices down. If anything, the Zip is a necessity for business and a "fancy item" for home PC users. Young

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