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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (16609)2/14/1997 8:31:00 AM
From: jwk   of 58324
 
Can somebody verify the facts in this post from the Fool digest?

Bascially, existing floppy drives cannot read floppies from the LS 120. Is it really a one way compatibility?

Let's see . . . can't run mutlimedia, 3x's slower than exisiting floppies in reading from them, no external models, no Mac units . . . oh, but it is "backwards compatible" - sort of.

Gotta get me one of these!
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<<<Subj: LS-120 Compatibility

Date: 97-02-13 01:57:08 EST

From: NovW

You people sometimes are way too technical for lots of the readers of this board, particularly new visitors.

Let's make it simple and remind them the fact that the 3.5" 120 disks with data and files written on them by the LS-120 drives
are not compatible with and won't be able to be read by hundreds of millions of regular 3.5" drives installed in computers out
there!!!

The LS-120 drive is compatible with the old regular 3.5" 1.44 drives only in the limited sense that the LS-120 drive can read
and write on those old and maybe soon to be abandoned 1.44 format DISKS. But then you have hundreds of millions of
regular 3.5" drives out there already doing just that, reading and writing on 1.44 disks; so what do you need the LS-120 to
also do that for? (A new additional regular 3.5" drive would only cost $20 to $30, so what is practical use of this LS-120's
"cheap compatibility"?)

It seems to me that the biggest COMPETITION that LS-120 faces may be those hundreds of millions of regular 3.5" drivesalready installed in computers out there. Competition instead of compatibility? Just a lay person's humble opinion and question. >>>>>>

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