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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas L Nielsen who wrote (34144)	10/31/1997 11:22:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

< Better get and hold an LS-120 for its future collector value. > There's no rush. Right now, CompUsa has them for $200 - $70 mnfr rebate. I'll wait until the rebate = retail price. But what can I use it for? It writes floppies slower than a regular floppy drive. I would never buy the LS-120 media since I have the emerging industry standard Zip drive. We must help them out. Let's think up some uses for $0 LS-120 drives. They must be good for something. Alas, the only use I can think of is as a Pop-Tart holder (frosted, naturally). Perhaps, with some modification, it could also toast them.

To: Thomas L Nielsen who wrote (34144)	10/31/1997 12:23:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Imation news in MSP paper "Thus far only 800,000 of the -(LS_120)-drives have been placed in computers produced by Compaq and NEC"--They article also implies that Imation has been forced by pricing measures to give away their 3 1/2 floppy disks and their super-floppy has a similiar scenerio.<< Thomas - As I've posted before, I am in the midst of a large network systems upgrade in a big chemical plant. While looking through a box of diskettes here, I noticed an LS-120 disk, still factory sealed in its original wrapper. I asked the system administrator which one of his computers had an LS-120 drive and he didn't know what I was talking about. It came with a Compaq computer, and neither he nor the user of the computer was aware of it. I've been around most of the plant, and I haven't noticed the drive in any of the Compaqs. I think I will ask him if I can keep the disk as a souvenir. - Allen