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To: David S. who wrote (44232)	1/22/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (2) of 58324

David, Re: "HiFD ride on the media as well" You have a good point, unfortunately it also show that you don't have much technical sense. Riding the magnetic media which spin at 3600rpm is almost impossible and expensive to achieve. According to Sony/Fuji, HiFD use what they called "Soft load" which "Float" above the media just like Zip. It is basically a HDD which use soft thin film instead the metal platter. It operates much like a HDD, in fact it use PRML too. HiFD is more like the Zip than the floppy. I guess IOM has made a mistake when they chose to develope Zip with a different physical form factor than floppy (this is a one-way street) but again they might have no choice because they want to achieve 100MB limit at that time. In addition they might never aware that Zip will be such a gigantic success, anyway IOM done a very great job. Right product at the right time. Now the question is will it continue the success, chance is fifty fifty. Even if it fail to kill HiFD, it is still a great company. Clik can be valuable product if flash memory price remains high (ask AMD), again the chance is fifty fifty :o) aC

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