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To: Mike Winn who wrote (1538)	11/13/1997 12:56:00 PM
From: Michael A. Gottesman	Respond to of 60323

Pulled this off the IOM thread: Clique available in the SECOND HALF OF 1998? This thing will be delayed almost 2 YEARS. Too little, too late. You can bet that Flash cards will have gotten a lot cheaper by then, as well as give more time for a host of other competing products. Bail out now. And this: Partners for No.Hand (Clik): No Kodak No Sony No Fuju No Canon No Sharp No Sanyo No Panasonic No Hope Also: I have repeatedly cautioned people here about the durability issue. Where did you read the info where they were having problems with durability in Clique?

To: Mike Winn who wrote (1538)	11/13/1997 1:03:00 PM
From: Michael A. Gottesman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Performance data from IOM on the Clik! How does this compare with flash (I assume slower)?: Performance Average seek time Less than 25ms Sustained transfer rate 700KB/sec avg. 1000KB/sec max. 500KB/sec min. Rotational speed 2941 rpm Latency (average rotational delay) 10.2 ms Average start/stop time .6/.5 sec. And another concern about durability: "No where? I haven't read any info on durability of click or nhand. Just think about it, spinning disk! "Hey honey; toss me the camera....Hah, what happened to the pictures we took?" I'm going to need that info on duribility before I buy a camera and take pictures that are irreplaceable."

To: Mike Winn who wrote (1538)	11/13/1997 1:12:00 PM
From: Michael A. Gottesman	Respond to of 60323

Also pulled this off the IOM thread: "And check out the concept of a device which will allow you to copy flash cards to Clik! disks. So you can use your current digital camera with its two or four megabyte flash card, then offload each set of pictures to a Clik! disk, and then take more pictures on the flash card." I mentioned this a couple of postings back when discussing Atmel connection. The clik! may end up being a great place to keep your "electronic photo album" while flash actual captures the image in the camera. One of the companies (IOM or SNDK) will probably develope a the device that you plug your CF card and clik! into to download images to clik! disk.