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

To: Naggrachi who wrote (39181)	12/10/1997 12:37:00 AM
From: Spank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Zead, not to rain on the parade... But why would Iomega IR blatantly lie? Wouldn't they offer up the "can't comment on that right now" response instead? I just can't imagine that they would be propagating bad news. Maybe the official count was 10MM at the time of the IBD interview (surely there was an interview as part of the process) sigh not my favorite stock day (but 12MM announcement tomorrow would leave me feeling happier) -Spank

To: Naggrachi who wrote (39181)	12/10/1997 5:37:00 AM
From: Stacy J. Matter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Hey Zead: Trust me, the 12 million figuire was wrong in IBD. Since people like to have a reference where information came from, I posted the IOM employee's name and phone number. Go back and look up my post regarding this and call the number. Sorry you don't like what you hear, but that is what IOM IR said!! Nobody would have liked to see the 12 million figuire more than me. And I would appreciate it if you do some follow up work before you call me a liar.

To: Naggrachi who wrote (39181)	12/10/1997 2:02:00 PM
From: Naggrachi	Respond to of 58324

TO ALL, A MUST READ OFF THE MOTLEY FOOL: >>Subject: Re: Counting Stars by Candlelight Date: Tue, Dec 9, 1997 00:47 EST From: IraS1 Good digging Clay. Clay posted: << Check out claim 12 from patent 5,638,228 and recall that this patent was filed Feb 14, 1995. 5638228.tif Page 10 "...a textured lens for said, detector, said textured lens discriminating against light reflected from other than a retroreflector material by distorting light reflected from other than a retroreflective material..." >> Moving back 2 pages in the patent, in the section titled "Description of the Preferred Embodiment", we find the following which explains the patent claim Clay cited: "Features may be added to the lens prism which help frustrate the use of other types of reflective materials and also the use of a lens in conjunction with other reflective materials. For example, surface roughness or waviness of the top of the lens prism which has a spatial frequency of less than the pitch of the retroreflective elements (0.006") will be corrected by optically using the retroreflective cartridge marker. This will frustrate the use of both ordinary mirrors and reflectors used in conjunction with lenses. Just putting an angular surface on the front face of the prism lens will frustrate the use of polished mirrors if the angle is made large enough. The corrective polished mirror that would be required is of such a large tilt angle that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to locate on a cartridge. If a mirror is oriented just right, some light will get back to the receiver, but this amount decreases in an exponential manner as the mirror is moved away from the source. This is not the case with the retroreflective material. The decrease with distance is linear with a very gradual slope." In the middle of the next column: "Hence, the differences in the return of light from the two retroreflective materials, Reflexite and a molded acrylic tag, are basically in the diameter of the returned spot of illumination. With the Reflexite, the retroreflected spot is about 12 mils. in diameter and requires the "Lens prism" to redirect light to the detector for sensing. It should also be noted that by getting rid of the "lens prism" some of the modes of discriminating against other types of light directing tags has been reduced." So....(my hypotheses follow)... leave out the prism in early production - save money. Lure competition. "Put back" prism, eliminate competition. >> Zead