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

To: FuzzFace who wrote (41576)	12/27/1997 3:19:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>The real risk is that Nomai pursues this in spite of the fact they know their disks won't work in laptop Zips, and future Zip models.<< This has yet to be seen. I have not heard of any independent lab testing concerning the compatibility issues. BTW, if Iomega does succesfully fix their drives, does this mean that old Zip discs will be rejected? Will they include some new security feature in the drives that current discs do not already have? This whole mess would not have happened had Iomega taken care of business the first time around.

To: FuzzFace who wrote (41576)	12/28/1997 12:56:00 AM
From: ben luong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

I see it the opposite way. Cranking out poor quality disc only make less customers wanting to buy and no merchant will order disc from Nomai. On the other hand, if this litigation attracts business media to cover its story, it will only provide Iomega another way to advertise itself. Iomega does not even have to protest. All they need to do is to add ID info to their zip disc and add extra logic to check this ID in their newly manufactured zip drive. So there is no upward compatibility to the Nomai disc and that product is dead. Iomega only need to put a label warning on their zip drive manual.