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To: Sam who wrote (1615)	11/23/1997 7:10:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) of 9256

Removeable storage and the impact on head manufacturers and MR head supply. I see that Syquest upped the ante with a 4.7 gig removeable disk using 4 MR heads. This would appear to be very high end heads. Iomega just announced a 2 gig Jazz disk using 4 inductive heads supplied by Read-Rite. Seems like Iomega isn't going to like seeing Syquest steal their show with more than double capacity. Does anybody know who supplies the Syquest heads? Question? Can Iomega sell disks later using MR technology that will run in drives first designed to use inductive heads? This market offers an interesting use of heads. If they ever got the popularity of Zip drives, it would be huge. I wonder if they could put MR heads into a Zip disk? Still, if this is the future for Iomega and Syquest, will they survive the advent of affordable near field technology from TeraStor? Terastor is also proposing a removeable format which will blow away normal capacity. By the way, Read-Rite is saying Micropolis won't pay their debt. How can the company buying them, Singapore Technology, continue to do business and not pay off the debt they owe from this subsiderary? Regards, Mark

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