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To: Don Devlin who wrote (3745)	6/17/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Tom Hoff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

I'm wondering whether or not nickel zinc and nickel metal hydride should be switched, because there is no way they are going to produce nickel zinc batteries for laptops and cell phones. ERC has even admitted that they could not compete with NIMH in those applications.

To: Don Devlin who wrote (3745)	6/17/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Tom Hoff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Thanks Don I couldn't resist, I have been touting this for years. It looks like sunset may be coming for the Zip drive. Recordable-rewriteable CD-ROM technology (CD-RW)--which allows users to record their own CD-ROMs and play them back on stereos or PCs--is steadily becoming the storage platform of choice among PC manufacturers and consumers. CD-RW drives come with only a few high-end PCs now, but declining prices, improvements in speed easier-to-use interfaces, and other factors will prompt PC makers to start including CD-RW units as a feature in more models by 2000. Performance users, meanwhile, already can get CD-RW drives that run DVD disks as an added bonus. The migration will likely mean the decline in sales of magnetic storage devices such as Zip drives, but <<http://www.iomega.com>Iomega does not intend to go quietly. Executives readily admit the storage maker is looking at technologies like recordable CDs, and sources say an announcement regarding optical storage could come next week at PC Expo.