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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (56234)	6/16/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Scott Moody	Read Replies (2) of 58324

PC expo from another point of view. Subject: PC Expo Date: Tue, Jun 16, 1998 17:24 EDT From: TMF Keeler Message-id: <1998061621244900.RAA08407@ladder01.news.aol.com> I went to PC Expo today and I have to say its pretty much "same old same old." Not much exciting in the PC industry these days. I only went because I got a free pass ;-) The biggest revelation of the day was that the Fool baseball cap is a big "chick magnet." Several female exhibitors independently commented on the cap. Being newly married this info does me no good now! If your not married you can get a Fool cap here: FOOL Ballcap Now to the serious business. I leave the serious gossip gathering and analysis to ETurkey who was there and does a great job schmoozing. I just like to drift around and see what catches my eye. That is how the average IT pro is experiencing it. Iomega's little show was by far the largest attended (only the Palm Pilot III demo was even close). The Iomega booth was crowded like in year's past and was certainly more crowded than its competitors. SyQuest was back inside the show (I saw them on a side alley outside last year). I wonder how many shares they sold to afford the floor space? LOL Sony had a HiFD demonstration going and an external and two internal drives. The external HiFD is actually bigger than the PP LS-120 if you can believe it. The internal fits into the Vaio floppy bay as far as I could tell. They ran some video off an internal HiFD (according to them); but of course who knows how close to functioning it actually is. The demo said the HiFD will be out in the Fall. So much for Spring 98 release. Imation was still pushing the LS-120 and Castlewood had a very small booth off to the side. The orb is a black round thing. In-Focus was pushing its projector that is part of the Microsoft, Iomega, Compaq, and In Focus deal. The projector doesn't actually connect to the Clik drive. The Clik drive connects to the Windows CE based handheld PC from Compaq that connects to the projector. Iomega had a section devoted just to customer service at the booth, that is new. Microtech was in the Iomega booth selling its Mii and seemed very happy to be there. VST and CNF were not in the Iomega booth this year. The Iomega presence in the Compaq booth was very impressive compared to year's past (which isn't saying too much since it was zero LOL). Most of the Presarios and a few of the laptops had Zip Buiilt-In. Most of the NEC Powermate computers had Zip Built-In. The literature identified them as Iomega Zip drives. There was a working Clik drive (working half the day at least) in the Iomega booth which is new and good to see. As a matter of fact, more was being done with the Clik than with the HiFD in the Sony demo. In other words, the Clik was being used attached to a h/pc (handheld PC) while Sony only was running video. The general impression I got was that the Clik in June 98 is where the laptop Zip was in June 97. "Second half" was the mantra. There were Clik drives in the Microsoft, In Focus, and Compaq booths (not connected to anything though). I also got the idea that there will be two Clik products sold at retail. "Clik for Digital Cameras" and "Clik for Mobile Computing." The main difference is that the latter comes with a Flash Card reader. Not sure how much more it will cost. The Flash card reader connects to the front of the Clik and has an LCD display (for what I can only guess). TMF Keeler Patrick Keeler A Fool and his money are soon partying

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