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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (1118)	6/27/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Guy Gadois	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Walking about with an ORB disk is akin to prancing about with a Betamax tape. You may have it and it works on your machine but so what? Can you exchange disks with someone else and can you be sure it will play on another machine? Betamax may have been the better technology but we all know what VHS did to it, don't we? Nothing like investing in an 8 Track... jon

To: BubbaFred who wrote (1118)	6/27/1999 10:59:00 AM
From: Naggrachi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

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To: BubbaFred who wrote (1118)	6/27/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

>>Of course, for some people, having twenty (20) disks is much better than just one (1). Another example is where owning twenty (20) one dollar (U$1) bills may be better than owning one (1) one hundred (U$100) bills. I realize this may be a bit convoluted and somewhat difficult to comprehend. It took me six years (when I was 6 years old) to learn differentiation of number values. That's why I have learned to always prefer the one U$100 bill to the twenty singles, or one 2.2 G Orb disk at $30 instead of the twenty 100 Meg Zip disks at $10 each. Apparently that fellow has similar appreciation.<< BF - Thanks, I think we can grasp that concept. Of course, everything depends on the application, so the analogy to bank notes isn't valid. For some applications, 20 100MB disks are more useful than 1 2.2GB disk. In the publishing world, to use an example I've brought up before, it's common for people to send large graphic files around on Zip disks. The Zip disk is the perfect size. The Orb disk would offer no advantage for this purpose. That's only one example. - Allen