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

To: Vaughn who wrote (42628)	1/6/1998 8:23:00 PM
From: Jonathan Lebed	Respond to of 58324

VOTE HERE!!! Is this thread one of the best on SI? I started a new thread. Click on the link below: Subject 18766 Thank You! Jonathan Lebed

To: Vaughn who wrote (42628)	1/6/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

>>What do you think it will do to his sub-$1,000 main processor when IOM brings the 40 MB Zip disk to market at $3.95. This, in combination with the $49 (cost to OEM) Zip drive, will be the solution of choice for even the lowest cost systems. The drive will take both low cost 40 MB and current 100 MB media They will not need to make any changes to the current drive hardware. All current drives will support both disks with just a simple driver update. Since the time to format will be reduced by 60%, manufacturing costs will go down dramatically. Once this happens, there are many obvious reasons why the number of disks sold will increase dramatically which will allow lower unit cost on all disks. They will also realize an increase in number of disks sold because they will be releasing a software tool which will image current 1.44MB floppies on to zip disks. The front end desktop component of the SW will also provide a catalog function for the 1.44's. Good bye to all those floppies forever... The R&D cost for this project is very low and time to market should be short. Not coincidentally, the 40MB capacity is the same as the new Clik disk. I wonder why?<< Vaughn - The real question is what makes you speak with such certainty about a product which has not been announced, and which in fact hasn't even been a rumor up to now, as far as I'm aware. - Allen

To: Vaughn who wrote (42628)	1/6/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

>>What do you think it will do to his sub-$1,000 main processor when IOM brings the 40 MB Zip disk to market at $3.95. << It is exactly wild guesses presented as fact like this example that give serious Wall Streeters the impression that IOM is nothing more than an Interent Hype Stock. As a matter of fact, Iomega had originally planned, I believe, a 25MB Zip disc as well as 100MB. They didn't do it. But in a way, your suggestion does make sense. Iomega keeps falling farther and farther behind other company's drive capacities, and the upcoming 40MB Vapor! drive is no exception. A 40MB Zip would be another perfect example.