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

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To: HardMoney who wrote (41634)	12/29/1997 10:27:00 AM
From: Jim Munroe	Read Replies (1) of 58324

>>Why can't IOM simply give a away some new enhanced Tool features or driver features by downloading them from their website. Presumably, everyone with a Zip disk, whether it was the first ever purchased or the last, would want to download it. Built into this Tools/driver software is somthing that makes ALL Zip drives respond negatively to any non IOM disks, while implanting any needed new code into the older Zip disk once it is used again.<< The problem remains as to whether there is currently any way that Zip Tools could distinguish an Iomega disk from a Nomai or other rogue disk. If Iomega put some distinctive magnetic code on their disks, code that Nomai could not legally copy (say "made by Iomega Corp."), then Tools could read that and act accordingly. If the media of Iomega and Nomai disks are currently indistinguishable, then a software solution would not work.

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