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

To: Lurker who wrote (39745)	12/13/1997 6:00:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>1. Same size disk, greater capacity - The market likes this. People wanted to upgrade from 300K to 600K to 1200K with their 5 1/4" disks. Likewise, people wanted to upgrade from 720K to 1440K with their 3 1/2" disks.<< Does anybody remember the 2.88 MB 3.5" drive? This doesn't always work. Brendan

To: Lurker who wrote (39745)	12/13/1997 6:05:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>2. Different sized disks - The market seems to shun these. While combo drives that could handle both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" drives were available, people preferred 2 separate drives. Very, very few computers sold with the combo drives. 99+% sold with one of each drive.< Lurker, you are quite correct. TEAC produced these drives yet you never saw them in use anywhere. Prior to coming to SyQuest, the current SyQuest CEO, Ed Harper, had a company called ComByte that produced a combo floppy and tape drive. The selling point was that it only took up one slot and cost less than two individual components. They got excellent press and reviews and then promptly went bankrupt. Just didn't sell. Fact is with a combo drive I can't copy a floppy to my new high capacity disk without copying to the hard disk first. What a pain. The combo feature of the HiFD is a non-starter, I don't care what cRock! says.