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

To: Cogito who wrote (3698)	12/26/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: Mel Boreham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

Allen, thanks for the good wishes for the holidays and the coming year. Have you read the "gatorhater" series of posts over on The Motley Fool IOM thread? He just bought the Agfa ePhoto CL-30 and seems pretty pleased with it. Considering what you would pay for the Nikon 950 vs the Agfa CL-30, you would have about $350 to $400 to spend on other stuff. Of course you wouldn't have the zoom lens and a few other neat features, but I'll bet that for average photo taking the Agfa will probably do just fine. I think we will see a Clik!ed CL-50 digital camera before the 2nd Quarter is over. I would imagine that this camera is in beta testing as we speak. Production would likely depend on initial acceptance of the Clik! as viable photo storage media. We should see some more ad emphasis on the CL-30 in the next few months. It's just TOO BAD that they couldn't have had it ready to ship in Sept. or Oct. as I am afraid most of the Christmas sales were lost for this quarter. It will be interesting to see actual hands-on testing by the photo magazines over the next couple of months. I'm wondering what Bruce Albertson thinks about this and what his response will be. His strong suit is marketing and lets hope he can be creative in getting this message out there. I think that they should emphasize the fact that you not only get a good solid digital camera from Agfa but you also wind up with a very useful portable USB Clik! drive that can be used to store other types of digital data and information. I am also encouraged by the recently announced collaboration between Iomega and Adobe in providing secure storage for e-documents, e-book and e-text books and lab manuals, etc. If the College and University Book Stores can go on-line like amazon.com you can just imagine that this would be a revolution to providing lower cost texts to students and professors. I really think that this could be the next big thing for Iomega and would really increase tie-ratios for Zip, Clik! and even Jaz disks. The idea of being able to go to an Iomega Kiosk at your local mall and being able to download an entire semester's worth of notes, texts, lab manuals, and syllabuses for less than they would cost in print has a lot of appeal. So lets see what develops. Hanging in for the new Millenium! Mel