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

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To: stock bull who wrote (41121)	12/21/1997 4:39:00 PM
From: Jim Munroe	Read Replies (3) of 58324

>>Doesn't this mean that the "new" IOM disk, the one that makes the Nomai disk incompatible with the "new" disks, also make the "new" IOM disk incompatible with the "old" Zip drives? Or, in other words, isn't this a question of forward and backward compatibility for IOM? If IOM doesn't maintain forward and backward compability for their own disks, this would create a real mess for the customer and IOM. Not an easy problem to solve.<< No it does not. The fix I suggest (and it is probably one of many options available to Iomega) is a simple modification to the Zip drives. What it does is take advantage of a sophisticated difference between the patented prismatic retroreflectors used on Iomega Zip disks and the spherical reflectors used by Nomai. The new drives would reliably refuse to operate with a Nomai disk but operate just fine with with Iomega disks. The old drives would probably continue to operate with Nomai disks. Iomega disks would work on all drives while Nomai disks thus would operate only on some drives. Which would you buy?

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