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To: Buster O. Hype who wrote (7044)2/4/1999 9:03:00 AM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) of 10072
 
Buster -

Funny, there's something about your style that reminds me of Rocky.

Now that we know he (you?) posts under multiple identities as a matter of course, it's easy to become suspicious about people who suddenly show up with a negative opinion. Another reason to suspect you might be Rocky, "Buster", is that your reasoning is no better than his. You're saying that Iomega is on life support because within one year:

1) Sony is going to be able to work out their technical problems with HiFD

2) They will be able to get the price down enough so that people will buy them built-in with new computers

3) All Zip owners will then switch because they will already have gotten their money's worth out of their Zips.

One word, Buster. Ridiculous. Each additional year it takes Sony to get HiFD off the ground means another 10 million or more new Zip drives out there, and more importantly, even less need for backward compatibility.

Why should 30 million Zip drive owners suddenly switch to HiFD? Will they all decide they really want to replace all their disks? For what? The ability to read 1.44MB disks? Everyone already has that. For 200MB capacity? They can already get 250MB in a drive that's compatible with all their old Zip media.

Whoever you are, it would be healthier to do something positive for a change. What's the benefit of trashing IOM?

- Allen

PS: I'm glad you do see that the Zip drive represents a good product at a fair price right now.
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