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

To: jon sunray who wrote (41919)	1/1/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: Setting the LS-120 Newbie Straight (and a note to Truff) Jon, The LS120 is ridiculously slow. I've used one (at PC Expo in June 1997). All the non-superficial reviews note its unacceptable slowness. It hasn't a prayer. Don't sweat it. The slowness is inherent in the technology it uses. Clik is a newborn babe. No one (except for Rocky the Clairvoyant) knows yet how it will turn out. Iomega's success as a company doesn't depend on it. So let it be. If it flies, those of us who are IOM longs will win. If it doesn't, that'll be a temporary setback for the company, but it won't kill Iomega any more than the Betamax embarrassment killed Sony or the Edsel flub killed Ford. Nobody wins every campaign. I suggest that you put more weight on Iomega's 10-K filings and things of that sort than you do on the recommendations of twenty-year-old floor sales reps at your local computer store. One of my entertainments is to go into places like that, strike up conversations with such people, tell them I'm a historian by trade, ask them open-ended questions, and marvel at the often appallingly uninformed, illogical, and sophomorically overconfident tripe they spout. The same is true for people who sell stereos and televisions. At the end of the conversation, I tell them I took my bachelors degree at Caltech and thank them for their informative briefings. Also, do what Linda Pearson does and pay attention to what's selling in the stores, not to what the clerks say. Talk is cheap. On that ironic note, I'll end my lecture. <g> Do yer own research if you don't want to fall victim to pontifications. OT to Truff: Are you sure about that dongle problem? If your new PP device is like the PP Zip, try moving the dongle to the "printer" connector on the back of it, then attach the device directly to the PP. If that doesn't work, and the USB is a hassle, why don't you just go buy a second PP on a board? You should be able to get one for, oh, thirty bucks and to configure it as LPT2. Happy New Year eveyone, and happy trading to y'all. (Is it okay for someone born in--gasp--New Jersey and now living in--gasp--New York to use "y'all"? <g>) Cheers, Tom (long IOM)

To: jon sunray who wrote (41919)	1/1/1998 8:07:00 PM
From: steve goff	Respond to of 58324

>Is there some drawback to an LS120?< Too slow, too expensive to manufacture at a competitive price, too late to market. techstocks.com

To: jon sunray who wrote (41919)	1/1/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Also, the LS-120 is not compatible with the 11M Zips out there. The LS-120 has been talked about here for a year and a half or more, and it still hasn't gotten anywhere. I'm still surprized anyone ever thought it would catch on--everyone at Imation et al. that allowed that piece of junk out on the market should be fired. Brendan

To: jon sunray who wrote (41919)	1/1/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

Re: Sony HiFi Some people ujst don't get it. Questions about "why not have both a floppy AND a Zip type drive instead of a drive that can do both?" The answer is simple. Take a look at the huge sales of cheap computers, and that tells something very alarming to fans of this argument. There are only 2 spaces in these machines for drives. One is for Cd-Rom (soon to be DVD). The other is for floppy. Floppy shows no signs of going away soon. Any drive that can handle both the traditional floppy, and a larger 100MB or 200MB media holds the edge. And this is where Sony has an edge that equals out the head start by Iomega.