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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum
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To: Stitch who wrote (4948)11/10/1998 2:55:00 AM
From: Dale Stempson  Read Replies (1) of 9256
 
>>> By the way, on another subject: Do you see the Sony-Fuji MO announcement as self defeating with regard to the HiFD from Sony? <<<

I doubt there's much overlap between the two. I would guess that they're primarily going after the existing base of users with a nice MO-backward-compatible high-capacity upgrade.

With HiFD, Sony appears to be shooting for the whole enchilada, the next floppy replacement. It's interesting to me however, that they're going to come out with an external version first, while the internal version is scheduled for Q199. Unless I owned an iMac, why would I care about the HiFD's main selling feature: "backward-floppy-compatibility" when selecting an external drive?

Regards - Dale
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