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

To: N4ZQ who wrote (37020)	11/23/1997 1:57:00 AM
From: Michael Coley	Respond to of 58324

RE: Fragile Nature of Clik in Digital Cameras? Angier, >> Is anyone concerned about the fragil nature of disk drives in the digital camera environment? << Here's something from The Motley Fool from Comdex: Subject: Re: Clik! Roundup Date: Wed, Nov 19, 1997 17:16 EST From: Bsutton2 << As for the disks themselves, I'd bet a tiny Clik disk is gonna fall to very hard surfaces all the time without breaking. If it breaks, at least your out only $10 vs. maybe $100-300 on the flash card. >> LOL! Life Imitates Art Department: at the Rainbow Room press conference last week, Kim Edwards and nearly every other speaker who handled the clik! drive during speeches managed to drop the device. The first time this happened, the assembled flacks were seen to wince visibly in sympathy; some even groaned aloud. (Fortunately, Mr. Edwards himself was the first Fumblefingers!) But after about the third mishap with no discernable consequences, this routine started to look like a running gag, sort of like those old SNL skits lampooning Gerald Ford (note: a briefly historic figure in an era before floppies were invented). At the end of the conference, when I picked up a presskit containing clik! samples, imagine my horror as I opened the folder only to see the shiny little gadgets clatter noisily to the floor. Nearly every recipient of a presskit did the same thing. I won't contend that any of this was rehearsed, just ironic. - Michael Coley - i1.net