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

To: Kashish King who wrote (42121)	1/3/1998 2:22:00 AM
From: Spank	Respond to of 58324

Rod, I'm not sure what it is about your problem that makes you think it was a Zip problem. I work on a unix network and have experienced "fake" file operations that sound like what you described. If you get into talking about networked stuff, I think you'd better include your sys-admin types in the equation, don't you? btw, I'd say that the comments you received which you categorized as bulls "foaming at the mouth" were driven by your making (as I tried to point out) unsubstantiated claims without saying disclaimer stuff like "it's your opinion"... Get it? -Spank

To: Kashish King who wrote (42121)	1/3/1998 3:08:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 58324

CD-R is WORM (write once read many) technology. Who needs it? One mistake, and you toss a disk. Even if you are perfect, the non-reusable media costs will quickly add up. CD-RW costs a lot more than CD-R, and the ones I saw tonight at Fry's still suffer from the same compatibility issues that have kept the market confused about CD-R(W) since the beginning. What can it read? What can it write? Is it the same as CD-R? Even a Fry's salesman I listened to was selling a CD-R to a couple, and representing it as CD-RW. I would love to see the usenet group they post to when they get that sucker home and waste a few disks on it before realizing what WORM means. CD-R or RW is slow, only holds 650MB and will eventually be replaced by DVD. It is a stopgap measure at best, and an overpriced toy at worst. Yes they are getting cheaper, but not fast enough to matter. By the time they are cheap enough for mass appeal, they will be hopelessly obsolete. IMO.