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

To: Brendan2012 who wrote (41573)	12/27/1997 1:59:00 PM
From: Al Shelinsky	Respond to of 58324

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I think that even if someone owns a Zip drive that will work with the Nomai media the fact that they may not be able to share the disk with others is a significant deterrent to purchasing the product. Al

To: Brendan2012 who wrote (41573)	12/27/1997 4:07:00 PM
From: Jim Munroe	Respond to of 58324

>>Iomega can alter the drives to stop any cloners.<< I would add that these alterations are simple and inexpensive. This may further depress the stock price for the short term but, in the long term, it is an insignificant zit. Iomega has many ways to deal effectively with this problem.

To: Brendan2012 who wrote (41573)	12/28/1997 1:47:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>The article closes by saying that the new Laptop ZIP drives have been modified and don't accept clone disks.<< Brendan - From what I understand, the laptop drives don't accept the XHD disks simply because they drives are thinner. It's not that Iomega purposely altered them to foil Nomai. One of the properties of Iomega's patented retroreflector device is that it can work effectively at a wider range of distances than a simple curved reflector can. Therefore, Iomega's reflector will work in all Zip drives, but Nomai's won't. - Allen