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

To: Gottfried who wrote (1379)	7/5/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5023

Hello! Happy Independence Day! (a bit late..) Haven't been around for awhile. I notice that the board (as usual) has taken a strong turn toward unreality again. denial at it's best. Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you guys are some of the biggest suckers on this planet. Amazing how Iomega pre-announces a dismal quarter, you bail, then jump in again as the stock makes a small uptick. It is very funny to watch. You take this uptick as a sign that things are great with the company again. If you want to read about yourselves, check out: "The Psychology of Technical Analysis" by Tony Plummer. Gottfried's post reminded me of the reason things have and will keep turning sour for Iomega. The fact is this: The macro-trends surrounding the PC industry is killing them. This move towards cheap (and free!) PCs will wipe out the ZIP drive, especially since Iomega has basically given up on making them standard. I called this 2 years ago, and I thought I should point out the data currently available is fitting perfectly. I always thought that Iomega would fail at the OEM market.. The ZIPcd thing is also funny. If you think you can revive a business by buying a device, slapping your name on it, and re-selling it, then you guys are in for a surprise. This kind of model cements in razor thin margins. What's more bizarre is that this product eats right into their ZIP business. Trade 30% margins for 10-15% margins. This works!! ;) When it comes to CLIK!, it's two years too late. It comes out behind the technology curve. It's a well known fact that in order for a new technology to take over an existing one, it MUST beat it in performance, price(!), and size. CLIK! has none of these traits. Fool yourselves on cost per Mbyte, and ignore the entry cost. That's fine. But I know better. You'll see, next year at this time. Lastly, I find it VERY funny (and sad) that your self appointed gurus find it necessary to trash people rather than add anything of value to the base knowledge about Iomega. Mooning in posts, and other 5 year old behavoir is common. Unfortunately for those who want to make money here, this is the kind of people this stock attracts. See you after earnings! kp PS: Anybody buy EXDS when I mentioned it at 76? I normally don't like posting stock picks (because I find that most people somehow manage to lose money anyway, even on stuff that doubles, triples!) but this company looks good...

To: Gottfried who wrote (1379)	7/5/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Gottfried, I think the c\|net site gives us a rough barometric reading of the sales trends of popular electronics devices. I noticed that the 48 MB SanDisk CompactFlash card (#94) is outselling the Iomega Zip 10 pack (#277). shopper.com This is even more impressive if you recall that there are a multitude of CompactFlash producers competing with SanDisk and the 48 MB card represents only one card capacity in the product line SanDisk offers. Ausdauer

To: Gottfried who wrote (1379)	7/5/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

>>Allen, I have a need to transfer a couple of programs from my old to my new PC. Since both accept my USB ZIP it will be easy. Except that I won't be able to catch all the little system file changes for each program. I thought I saw a program somewhere that captures all that. "File transfer" comes to mind. Is there such a program? The programs were preloaded and I don't have the CD.<< Gottfried - You'd think that would be a simple tihng to do, wouldn't you? Unfortunately, in the wonderful world of Windows, it isn't. But don't despair. There are a few different programs that should make that possible. I believe most of the "uninstaller" programs can do it, though you might have to futz around doing an uninstall from the first computer, having selected the option to backup all the removed files, then find the backed up files (usually in a specified sub-directory of the uninstaller program) and copy them to the new machine. Then you can use the "restore" function of the uninstaller program. The programs should come with specific instructions for this process. I can't recommend one over another, because I don't use any of them. I must say that I believe that there is something very wrong with an operating system which is designed in such a way that you can never be sure, when you uninstall a program, that all of its files have been deleted. And of course every program you get rid of will also leave dozens of vestigial entries in your registry, which might or might not cause problems at a later date. Microsoft will tell you that if a Windows program is written properly, it should be able to completely uninstall itself without a problem. If that's so, then I guess Microsoft's own application software isn't written properly, because it sure doesn't uninstall itself completely. Don't get me started. I'm about to go on a serious rant, here. It's not that I totally hate Windows. I just think that it has some very serious underlying flaws. - Allen