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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: KM who wrote (39285)12/10/1997 6:16:00 PM
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All -

Or all who are interested anyway.

I just spoke to Anne Abuhakmeh at Nomai Marketing. She is sending me samples of XHD disks to test on the various Zip drives to which I have access. I should have them in a couple of days, and will report here. If anyone has any specific tests they want me to run, just send me e-mail.

I suppose I'll just have to take a chance on damaging the drives. You have to figure the folks at Nomai are pretty confident to be willing to send samples out to the press for testing.

While we're on the subject, there's one thing that has been bothering me. As many people here have noted, Iomega's latest injunction against Nomai was based solely on the claim that the XHD disks were not in fact compatible with all Zip drives, and there has been no mention recently of the patent infringement claims.

This makes me think that it's just possible that Nomai has actually produced disks which do not infringe on the patents.

If this is true, then there is still the possibility that Iomega could make some sort of "adjustment" to the Zip drive which would render these Nomai disks unusable on newer drives. But I wonder about the marketing problems created by that kind of tactic.

One thing that SyQuest drive owners have resented over the years is the very high price of the 44 and 88MB cartridges which were the standard removable storage media in the graphics industry before Zip came along. SyQuest had a lock on the market and they exploited it. True, people did still buy the disks. But they were also all too willing to jump on the Zip bandwagon as it rolled by.

I don't really have a conclusion here. Just some thoughts.

- Allen
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