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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: davesd who wrote (7835)9/27/1996 9:35:00 AM
From: David Ronemus   of 58324
 
>>>>Rocky, at the current price of a ZIP diskette, I doubt that it will become a standard anytime soon. It has
to be priced as a commodity price $2 - $3 range max<<<<<

I can remember when hi-dens floppies were several dollars each, and most people did not give them away without thinking a minute. The price drop was fast once they became common. The same would happen with Zip, but it is a catch 22 situation.

If you take apart a Zip disk or read the Patent covering the zip disk design you will see that the ultimate high-volume cost for a Zip disk can be very low. I think that the price will come down rather quickly when real volume kicks in. Interesting enough, Pre-formatted floppies are also pretty expensive. I have to wonder if unformatted zip are possible, although it takes many minutes to do a long format on a zip drive.
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