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To: Jerome Wittamer who wrote (1485)	11/12/1997 1:03:00 PM
From: James Choi	Respond to of 60323

This device from IOM cannot touch the following areas. Professional Photography. The transfer rate from CCD to CompactFlash is slow as it is. Each image is at least 1M. Often, in sports and fashion photography, pictures need to be taken in a rapid succession. There is no time to wait for the image to be written on this drive. Sound recording. The transfer rate required cannot be met by these slow drives. IOM Jazz drives can be used for music recording, but ZIP cannot be (if someone succeeded, please correct me). Too slow. If someone comes up with a way to transfer CompactFlash into this IOM disk, then it will reduce the number of CompactFlash that a photographer has to take with him on an assignment, but will not eliminate it. James Choi

To: Jerome Wittamer who wrote (1485)	11/12/1997 1:05:00 PM
From: Bill D'Angelo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

>The size constraint< I just saw a demo of the Sony Mavica. There is a floppy drive built right into the camera. Very impressive to me. Just pop the disk out and put in your PC. I don't know if flash is part of the package, but the camera was not bulky and very user friendly, but larger than a regular 35mm of course. Has anyone else seen this? Does this mean that the IOM solution might be more viable than we thought?

To: Jerome Wittamer who wrote (1485)	11/12/1997 1:20:00 PM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Jerome, I just don't see how any mechanical device can have higher storage density than RAM or Flash memory except for future (very future) esoteric technolgies such as Holographic or Organic storage. Also, the mechanical nature of any mass market high volume drive/tape system doesn't have the speed required for realtime capture of images/video unless of course you are willing to factor in the cost of very expense miniturized components. FWIW, iomaga's Jazz drive hasn't been without quality problems with recalls of the drives and cartridges. What makes you think that anything much smaller and more delicate such as the nhand won't be plagued with reliability issues? What will the failure rate be of this device? In my opinion, consumers devices such as digital cameras need to be as bullit proof as possible and easy to use. Camera companies know this, but many computer type companies still have not learned this lesson. Sandisk's CF is virtually plug and play and probably easier than loading a film cartridge in a traditional camera. This has already been proven. Will any technology device such as nhand be that easy to use???? Maybe there may be room for this iomega product but I don't see it affecting Sandisk as a company with technolgy that applies itself to so many markets as we've seen in the last few weeks. Of course this whole debate revolves on whether iomega's conference is about this long promised nhand product. Whether it is or not, doesn't change my being long on Sandisk. Mauro.