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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Reseller who wrote (30221)9/17/1997 12:08:00 AM
From: FuzzFace   of 58324
 
All. Ok forget the Post-it note. Like Reseller, I Scotch-taped aluminum foil over the Zip's clear plastic window. The disk works fine. No need to find the right RGB hue in the paper. Aluminum foil. 100% blocking the reflector.

Others have said it well here, this is not the end of the world. But unless there is real protection against cloning Zip disks in one or more of the patents, we longs have a right to be concerned. Yes IOM is a great company. Yes their earnings will still grow. But there will not be the Zip cash cow we were all counting on, now will there? Someone else will take the profits IOM has rightfully earned through hard work, engineering acheivement and marketing savvy. And we who have risked our money on this most difficult stock will have been cheated of our just reward for taking such large risks. It makes me mad as hell to think about it.

Robert, I don't want you to stop reading or posting here, but these reflectors have been represented here as being protected by a strong patent that ensures the Zip disk franchise. It is not Mickey Mouse to cover the reflector window with foil, or a piece of yellow-green paper and find the patented reflector is superfluous. It is really quite serious.

I ask you all here what I asked at the MF IOM board: does anyone know of a patent that really protects the Zip disk from cheap knockoffs? And I mean do you KNOW? My core 1000 shares are still perspiring in spite of today's nice closing rally.
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