Pradeep, re:"the clik! theoretical limits for capacity"
I don't think that Clik! was crippled to keep demand up for Zip (anyone remember the PC Jr.?). Why? Simple math:
1. The Zip 250 just came out (yes, I know they have had it working for a while), what are its dimensions: approx 100 mm x 100 mm.
2. The Clik! dimensions are approcimately 50 mm x 50 mm, according to the Iomega website.
Therefore, since A = 3.14*r^2, if Iomega uses the same technology for Clik! as they use for Zip 250, a resonable max capacity would be on the order of 60 MB, assuming that the entire area of the disk can be written on. 40 MB is probably a better number, since the center of the disk is not written on. Of course, not having seen one, I have no knowledge of the spinner contact area of the Clik! disk. The Zip disk spinner contact plate is approximately 25 mm dia.
This might actually tell us something about why (1) it has taken the Clik! so long to come out and (2) the Clik! is being introduced simultaneously with the Zip 250: you couldn't use the old Iomega technology, you had to use the Zip 250 technology. Why not kill two birds with one stone, in one throw?
Cameron
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