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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Ockham who wrote (42745)1/8/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: David S.  Read Replies (1) of 58324
 
Don't have too many problems with your argument yesterday.
But you made some history shortcuts that twist your logic.
5.25 and 3.5 floppy were not introduced as a package.
Rather, there have been a whole series of different floppys
which both paralleled and succeeded one another.
The first floppys were 8' and only held about 300 kb.
The first IBM PC and clones came out with dual 5.25"
floppys (around 1980). Once a hard drive was added (the XT)
the second 5.25 floppy became optional.
Apple introduced the 3.5 hardcase floppy in the early 80's
and stuck with that till now - although there was one or two
capacity upgrades. The PC stayed with the 5.25 exclusively
for quite a while and it was only 5 to 7 years ago that some
machines had both a 5.25 and a 3.5 and gradually, the 5.25
dropped out of the picture just a few years ago. Thus
the standard, so to speak, for removeable storage was not
in fact a standard other than it used a floppy magnetic media
within a sturdy or stiff case. There were many floppy types.
And there were all kinds of resulting problems using files
between machines having different floppy types.
... Zip and or Clik can and may become the new standard for
removeable storage in that over the next 5 to 10 years it
can supplant and do away with the need for a floppy drive. But this
will likely be a gradual transition and Iomega could end up with
multiple competitors. The key here is wide distribution and use.
With about 12 Million drives as a head start, Zip can be the
standard as long as the price goes way down. KE knows this and
he will drive the price of the drive and the disks down to
expand the market.

Regards, David S.
Long on Intel and Iomega
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