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

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42330)	1/4/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 58324

> That was how the 1st gen worked, but they improved it since, by supporting the changing of the end-of-volume marker into an end-of-file marker, as Andy alluded to.< It is still easy to turn them into coasters if you expect a CD-ROM that doesn't support packet writing to read them. Also, my recent experience is that you can trash them even for a drive with packet writing. This happened just last week with our new HP CD-RW drive. If Zips are junk as some have claimed lately then these CD-RW drives are pure excretment.

To: FuzzFace who wrote (42330)	1/4/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: To respond or not to respond? Edwin, >> I am constantly torn between the case for ignoring them versus gamely playing along and endlessly refuting them. << You're in good company. In the book of Proverbs chapter 26, here is what verses 4 and 5 tell us: 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, let he be wise in his own conceit. - Proverbs 26:4-5 (And that's coming from the wisest man ever, Solomon!) I think it's important to defend against error, but to avoid stooping to their level. If something is obviously wrong, it doesn't need a response. If something is completely off topic (grammar, other stocks, etc.) it doesn't need a response. If something is inciteful, it doesn't need a response. But if it's a potentially valid point left in a civil manner that hasn't been addressed recently (or by someone else since the message was left), I agree that it needs to be addressed. - Michael Coley - i1.net