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

To: jwk who wrote (39838)	12/14/1997 7:10:00 PM
From: John Alan Wallace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

<<< >> the failure of LS-120 is because of its poor marketing. << yeah, they couldn't figure out an ad campaign that made it run faster.>>> The above is my favorite for post of the day. I don't know how many of the "new" people on this thread spouting the utility of backwards compatibility have thought of this, but it was discussed when the LS120, aka superdisk, aka a:drive went through its first, second and third attempts at marketing. I have a zip and a 3.5 inch drive, how do I copy a file from the 3.5 inch to my zip? I stick in a zip disk, stick in the 3.5 disk and copy. I have a backward compatible Sony HiFD and no 3.5 inch drive, how do I copy from the 3.5 inch disk to my HiFD disk. Well, I put in my 3.5 inch disk and copy the file to my hard drive, then I take out my 3.5 inch disk and put in my HiFD disk. Then I copy the file from my hard drive to my HiFD disk. then I remove the file from my hard drive. Well there are dos commands and utilities that let you do it a little more simply than that but it still is more difficult than copying from the 3.5 inch straight to the zip. Backward compatibility ain't all its cracked up to be.