RE: Setting the LS-120 Newbie Straight (and a note to Truff)
Jon,
The LS120 is ridiculously slow. I've used one (at PC Expo
in June 1997). All the non-superficial reviews note its
unacceptable slowness. It hasn't a prayer. Don't sweat it.
The slowness is inherent in the technology it uses.
Clik is a newborn babe. No one (except for Rocky the
Clairvoyant) knows yet how it will turn out. Iomega's
success as a company doesn't depend on it. So let it be.
If it flies, those of us who are IOM longs will win. If it
doesn't, that'll be a temporary setback for the company, but
it won't kill Iomega any more than the Betamax embarrassment
killed Sony or the Edsel flub killed Ford. Nobody wins every
campaign.
I suggest that you put more weight on Iomega's 10-K filings
and things of that sort than you do on the recommendations
of twenty-year-old floor sales reps at your local computer
store. One of my entertainments is to go into places like
that, strike up conversations with such people, tell them
I'm a historian by trade, ask them open-ended questions,
and marvel at the often appallingly uninformed, illogical,
and sophomorically overconfident tripe they spout. The same
is true for people who sell stereos and televisions. At the
end of the conversation, I tell them I took my bachelors
degree at Caltech and thank them for their informative
briefings.
Also, do what Linda Pearson does and pay attention to what's
selling in the stores, not to what the clerks say. Talk is
cheap.
On that ironic note, I'll end my lecture. <g> Do yer own
research if you don't want to fall victim to pontifications.
OT to Truff: Are you sure about that dongle problem? If
your new PP device is like the PP Zip, try moving the dongle
to the "printer" connector on the back of it, then attach the
device directly to the PP. If that doesn't work, and the USB
is a hassle, why don't you just go buy a second PP on a
board? You should be able to get one for, oh, thirty bucks
and to configure it as LPT2.
Happy New Year eveyone, and happy trading to y'all. (Is it
okay for someone born in--gasp--New Jersey and now living
in--gasp--New York to use "y'all"? <g>)
Cheers, Tom (long IOM) |
