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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (10228)	4/8/2000 10:28:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

It should also be noted that Dataplay states a "$100" cost of the Dataplay PC Card type III and USB drive. Note that this is the exact same $ figure Iomega gave when it gave the press release about its dismal Clik drive. Well, the story goes, when Iomega finally rolled out its Clik drives, they cost $299 and $249 for each external version. The PC Card Clik was rolled out for $199, TWICE as much as what they said it would cost (And this is with Citizen actually manufacturing the PC Card version, whose engineering skill and cost efficiencies are much greater than Iomega's). Don't be suprised when Dataplay drives are finally rolled out July 2002 with a price tag of $249. By that time, 128MB of CF or SD may be $20!

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (10228)	4/8/2000 11:34:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

DataPlay needs PCMCIA Type III Drive Rocky, thanks for your perseverance in finally tracking down the details on DataPlay. I called their corporate office several times earlier in the week, scoured the website, left a phone mail message, etc... to no avail. At one point I asked if there was anyone in the office at all who could answer a question. The receptionist said that all of the employees were either out of the office, at a trade show, or working with their publicist on an upcoming launch. Q: "You mean you are the only one at the home office?" To which the receptionist replied in the affirmative. Q: "But you have 80 full-time employees and not a single one of them is around." To which the receptionist replied in the affirmative. Q: "Not a single person?" To which the receptionist replied, "Nobody's here." Well, it kind of makes you wonder who is running the ship (and I was too shy to ask her to put the janitor on the phone). Rock, I can appreciate the effort it takes to obtain these little pearls of knowledge and wanted to thank you for sharing it here as well as interpreting the news for us so succinctly. The fact is that even PCMCIA type II that supports Clik! is still too big and remains unsupported in the consumer digital camera market. CF, CF II, MMC/SD, SmartMedia, and Memory Stick already represent a large enough line of form factors to consider without adding PCMCIA type III. To be honest, even their advertising looks like recycled Iomega branding... dataplay.com CF = Land Rover MMC/SDMC = Mazda Miata PCMCIA type III = used Winnebago Ausdauer