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To: BubbaFred who wrote (8016)3/6/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid  Read Replies (4) of 10072
 
>>The industy specification for this is called PC2000. It is being pushed by Microsoft and Intel. It will turn the PC into an WinTel version of iMac. They plan to depend on USB. There will be no drive bays available for internal versions of any storage devices.<<

This goes right along with Syed Iftikar's strategy--actually replacing the HARD DRIVE in a computer with an ORB Drive...this way, you can have hard drive performance (or even better) and be able to swap out drives with ease. You can have different bootable OS's on each ORB disk..Windows2000 on one, Linux on another, etc. Syed has already lined up Asian computer-maker ProView to replace internal hard drives with ORBS.

Iomega and Zip turned out to be unsuccesful in their goal of floppy replacement. Instead, the vestigial internal floppy is being dropped out of the box...with NOTHING but a modem and ethernet as its replacement. The brilliantly designed and executed iMac has shown the way.

...and Imation Superdisk stands to gain ENORMOUS benefit from all this. $149 USB Superdisk...the 5th best-selling product overall at Mac retail outlets... Expect the same success rate with PC Boxes with no floppy. USB Zip nowhere in sight on the sales charts. Zip has no chance of being included inside W2000 boxes.
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