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

To: Roland Fehrenbacher who wrote (39004)	12/9/1997 9:00:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

Roland. Thanks for shedding more light on it. It sounds like they used Zips which, like mine, work with Post-it notes and aluminum foil. Too bad they didn't get one that doesn't, like some people here have. Then the report would have been most embarassing to Nomai. As it is, it leaves the impression that only laptop Zips are incompatible, when in fact, random Zips of all kinds are.

To: Roland Fehrenbacher who wrote (39004)	12/9/1997 11:16:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Respond to of 58324

Re: Reputation of German computer magazine C't Yes, C't is probably consider the most reliable and unbias (unlike some test done by ZDLab) source of technical information of computer hardware. Unfortunately I rarely read it because it is published in german, must first have it translated to English. aC

To: Roland Fehrenbacher who wrote (39004)	12/9/1997 4:05:00 PM
From: Dr. Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Testing of Nomai disks; some details Translation from c't Germany (11/28/97) Nomai claims that Iomega is using unfair test conditions: in a test commissioned by Iomega in the U.S., the disks have been tested by the testing institute "CETR" for 15 days at a temperature of 58 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 10%, followed by a 24-hour period of continued load / unload of the heads. (Nomai claims:) These conditions are outside the specifications of the external ZIP drive and are, thus, unrealistic. Furthermore, Iomega has intentionally modified its notebook Zip drives, released at Comdex, so that they reject Nomai cartridges. German text: Noma‹ wirft Iomega dagegen unfaire Testbedingungen vor: In einem von Iomega in Auftrag gegebenen Test in den USA seien die Medien vom Prfinstitut "CETR" 15 Tage lang einer Temperatur von 58 Grad Celsius bei einer Luftfeuchtigkeit von 10 % ausgesetzt worden, gefolgt von einem 24stndigen Dauertest mit st„ndigem Load/Unload der K”pfe. Diese Bedingungen l„gen weit jenseits der Spezifikation des externen Zip-Drive und seien folglich unrealistisch. Iomega habe ferner ihre im November auf der Comdex in Las Vegas vorgestellten Zip-Laufwerke fr Notebooks absichtlich so modifiziert, daá sie die Noma‹-Cartridges nicht ann„hmen.