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

To: BBG who wrote (3017)	10/1/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

As for IOM becoming obsolete technology... I don't think so. BBG, I completely agree. I still remember when the "spit monster" Dan Dorfman "announced" on CNBC that Zip drives were based on "old technology". With 200 of us having used Iomega 20 Mb Bernoulli drives for four years (with the disks costing the company $100 each) at then McDonnell Douglas on a highly classified program without any data loss whatsoever, I instantly fell in love with the idea of 100 Mb Zip drives with the disks costing $20 each for my home use. I was so convinced of this "old technology" that I bought a whole bunch of (for me) IOMG stock between June and late November of 1995. Believe me, Zip technology is not old technology, and I have often doubted that any other company had the expertise or experience to developed the Zip drive with "flying" hard drive heads in conjunction with flexible media. I was the first one on the project to test a Bernoulli drive (in this case it was a dual drive), and immediately fell in love with it because I could literally throw a Bernoulli disk against a wall and not lose data. As soon as I said I was happy, the company ordered 200 drives for all of us. Prior to that, we were using drives manufactured by some outfit in Kansas City, and I'll never forget one day when a fellow employee dropped his disk about two feet on a desktop and lost all of his data! For our project, Bernoulli drives were a Godsend. Dave