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Non-Tech : Trading IOMEGA based on technical analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: fut_trade who wrote (1264)	12/9/1997 11:40:00 AM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1511

kjude and E. Graphs, From December issue of Multimedia Monitor. This might be old news. There is a start-up Castlewood Systems that has developed a 2.1 GB product named ORB that reads 3 1/2" media and uses magnetic technology. Limited shipments next month, ramp-up expected Q1 of 98. I think Syed Iftikar is involved with this company. One plus for ORB technology could be 12.2 MBps data rate and (MR) head technology. Market Trends. DISK/TREND predictions for rewritable media vendors (of which Iomega has the lion's share of the market): 8.9 M high-capacity flopp drives shipped this year, reaching ~27M by year 2000. 1.9 M rigid disk cartridge drives this year, and 5.5 M by year 2000. In-Stat: "...PC makers will be leery of including next-generation DVD drives in their product plans even when prices drop because of standards uncertainties." Peter