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

To: Cogito who wrote (3630)	12/15/1999 8:21:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 5023

Allen, agreed: the Panasonic's 1.44MB floppy capability is nearly useless, unless someone wishes to use the camera like he would a Sony Mavica. But why would he, with 120 MB capacity there? A ZIP camera sounds better to me all the time, especially if it was USB and could double as an external ZIP drive. Gottfried

To: Cogito who wrote (3630)	12/16/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Thought I'd just drop in to say Hello. I see that the Agfa Cl30 camera with the Bomb! drive in it missed its rollout target of 12/15 today. The date keeps getting pushed farther and farther back. I guess Christmas sales are out of the question now. Don't be too suprised if it gets cancelled altogether, or instead becomes a very "limited edition." Oh well... nothing really lost anyway. A piece of crud old-technology 1.0 megapixel camera like the Agfa CL30 isn't going to do much for Iomega's status anyway. If only Iomega could be like Panasonic, who announced only 3 months ago a Superdisk camera... ...and now that the Panasonic, with its 1.3 megapixel CCD (low-res, but still 30% better CCD resolution than the Agfa CL30 Bomb! camera) is on store shelves right now, we can see if it will put a dent in Sony or not. The Panasonic Superdisk camera doesn't have as good a zoom lens as the Mavica, but the option of using either 1.44 floppies or 120MB Superdisks is a selling point for those ignorant on current/future technology (flashcards), and who relate to old-technology concepts like rotating disks in their cameras. Gotta hand it to Panasonic- announced 3 months ago, and here it is right on time. But thankfully the concept of taking pictures on safe, rugged, battery-friendly flashcards and keeping entire libraries of pictures on the immense hard drive computers have nowadays is becoming more and more the new paradigm in home photography, despite the Mavica and Panasonic. Flashcard sales and flashcard camera sales are exploding. And backing up to CD-R makes total sense and is really catching fire as CD-RW drives sell like crazy. No Iomega needed (or really wanted for that matter) in home digital photography. I like this new paradigm. Iomega's Bomb! has missed two more deadlines. The Agfa CL30 Bomb! camera missed its Ingram rollout date today, and the VaroVision Bomb! MP3 thing has been pushed back to April 2000 (if it ever sees the light of day) I can see you all really miss me, so maybe I'll drop in more often.- And no, I wasn't banned from here or anything. I would proudly admit so if it were true (like a year ago- banned 2 weeks for no other reason other than to "Calm down the thread." according to an SI spokeperson) With enforcement like that, these boards really are a Shill's Paradise. Geez..this post turned out to be a lot longer than I originally intended..sorry about that.