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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (4728)	11/8/1997 10:14:00 PM
From: Stephen Leung	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 7685

200 MB super floppy I heard this will be introduced sometime in 1998. Considering that it can read the 3.5 floppy, it could ultimately replace the zip as preferred standard. I don't see this having any impact on Syquest products. Steve

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (4728)	11/9/1997 11:00:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 7685

Dale, nice article. imo HiFD will have a chance to success if 1) selling price is the lower of USD150 or Zip+ drive + 10%. 2) media cost must be roughtly the same as 100MB zip disk. 3) have support from 2 major box makers like CPQ, IBM, DELL, HWP and maybe GTW. Technically, it is better than zip, 100MB is really not enough for a next generation floppy, also zip is little bit slow. Two major factor keep Zip becomes the standard next gen floppy are: 1) Zip disk cost too much 2) not backward compatible but these will not be problem when zip disk cost below $5.00 and the internal drive cost below $60 Thanks aC