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

To: Cogito who wrote (41909)	1/1/1998 6:48:00 PM
From: Wayne Lian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Allen, <<The Wired article contains at least one factual error. It states that n-hand was introduced at Comdex in 1996, and then failed to meet the summer '96 ship date that was announced at Comdex. Since Comdex is in the fall, I don't see how this could have happened.>> there is more than one Comdex show each year. The one in Las Vegas is fall Comdex. The other one, if memory serves, is spring Comdex.

To: Cogito who wrote (41909)	1/1/1998 7:09:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 58324

Allen, Re: >>>Despite some people's beliefs to the contrary, there is no flash memory "standard." There are competing types of flash memory devices from Toshiba, Sandisk, Intel and possibly others. These different "standards" are not compatible with one another. In my opinion, this leaves the market ripe for incursion by a technology which is significantly less expensive, such as Clik!. I do believe that if Iomega cannot get some firm OEM agreements for Clik! by April or May at the latest, this article will only be the beginning of the negative press. The company certainly will not stop growing, but people love to bash the market leader.<<<< I wonder if Iomega could start implementing Clik! with a 'standard bus' such as firewire or USB, or perhaps a PC Card plug-in? That way a pocketable or belt-mounted unit could be plugged in to existing cameras or PDA's. This scheme would be similar to the way Zip was introduced with SCSI and PP. Maybe this could be a way to get OEM's to see the value of Clik! and lead to integrating it into their products? On your bits/bytes description - another few (1 to 3) bit times are lost in overhead such as parity, etc. Note that Netscape usually reports bytes per second whenever you download a file. Jeff