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

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Spank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

DR. IOMEGA: CC question: Is it reasonable to expect that the company is developing non-magnetic storage solutions? -Spank

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

RE: "If you could have some questions answered at the conference call, what would they be? Please submit some questions to this board." i heard that the screws on the Zip&#153 disk have recently been replaced with rivits: Was this done to reduce the cost, or is there another reason? (The gig-o-colors i received for Christmas has screws, when was this change made?)

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: Kansas George	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

DR IOMEGA, CC Question, At the present time we see Nomai is trying to MFG and sell ZIP disk, and it seems they may find a way to market at least some disk. Will IOM be able to improve on the disk authentication, either via hardware or software? Also, I believe clik! sales could eventually dwarf ZIP and copycats will be waiting to steal market share if IOM does not have adequate copyright protection. Assuming micro drives built into digital cameras, etc, will IOM be able to incorporate authentication means into these drives?

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Question for Dr. Iomega For CC: Mr. Edwards, how will Iomega respond to Castlewood's Orb and SyQuest SparQ and Quest? Will Iomega continue to rely on big budget marketing instead of developing products that are bigger, faster, and less expensive than the competition?

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 58324

Thanks for the reply Doc, my favorite questions are: 1) When will second source drives be available? 2) Will Zip2 read Clik! disks? 3) Will Iomega support USB bus in '98? 4) Will Iomega and the licensees be able to support over 2 million drives per month by mid 98? 5) How much will Zip2 exceed the Sony proposed 200 MB drive by? 6) When Zip2 is available will the 100 MB disks approach $6 per disk retail? I'm sure I can think of a few more good ones...

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 58324

Hey Doc, one more question... Will HP directly integrate Clik! support into printers by mid 98 or by the end of 98?

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/6/1998 11:26:00 PM
From: Naggrachi	Respond to of 58324

<<Question for Dr. IOMEGA>> I read on TMF today, that based on the various channel checks inventory is building up quiet rapidly, especially the PP Zips. As a result, we should see a couple of pennies set aside for the inventory buildup. Especially when you consider that IOM does not count what it sells. The post also addressed lack of SCSI internals. Your comments regarding these issues would be appreciated. Does the company know you post here? Zead

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 12:11:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

Questions for cc: 1) Sparq holds as much as Jaz-1, the drive is 1/2 Jaz-1 external's price, and the media costs less than 1/2 Jaz-1's. Does IOM consider SparQ a threat to Jaz? If not now, what milestone would SparQ have to reach before it is a threat? 2) SparQ parallel port drives are reportedly getting 800-1200 KBps versus Zip's 150-175 Bps. Even LS120 is reportedly getting 300 KBps. Are there any plans to speed up the PP Zip? Or the ATAPI Zip, which tops out at around 800 KBps? If so, will the improved speed be available to current owners? 3) From the following link, it is apparent ZipPlus in SCSI-mode gets about a 50% performance improvement over Zip SCSI. Why does the fine print on the ZipPlus box say that they are identical? computers.com

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Tom Trawinski	Respond to of 58324

Question for Dr Iomega and the CC: Please ask IOM managment to release their revenue percentages by product. Tom

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Thomas L Nielsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

<<Question for Dr. IOMEGA>> When will cameras that have The CLIK system be on the market? Include answers that describe industry embrace and compatibilities. Tom

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Spank	Respond to of 58324

DR IOMEGA: CC question: Are there any plans to introduce a lower capacity Zip disk that smaller s/w distributors won't find cost-prohibitive? -Spank

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: Ockham	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 58324

Forget the battles. Here's how to win the war: The Zip drive is not the standard. If it were, it would already be included in most new pc's, and Iomega would be a cash cow instead of a high-growth, high-risk startup. In fact there will never again be a "The Standard." 10 years ago there was only 1 way to share files with everyone: the floppy. There was only one way to boot your machine when the drive crashed: the floppy. Most new computers came with both a 3.5" and a 5.25" and most software was sent on one or more 3.5" disks. Few people had a CD-ROM, a Syquest44 or Internet access, and so there was no point to making any software or information available that way. Floppy was THE standard because it was the only device that most everyone had. Today almost everyone has a CD-ROM, modem, and internet access in addition to their floppy. It is cheap and easy for big companies to burn a CD full of their bloat-ware. CD-ROM is THE NEW standard for software distribution. For small programs, device drivers, and for sending small files anywhere, the floppy and the Internet share the medium-of-choice distinction. The introduction of the Zip drive will change none of these. No software company will distribute their program on a Zip disk. No one would send a 100K photo of Junior to Grandma on a Zip disk. This is common sense. A drive cost $20 and the disks are disposable (call AOL for a free refill :-)) For these reasons I think the 3.5" floppy will continue to be installed on new PC's. It's also the reason that there will never be another "The Standard" So where does that leave our beloved IOM? With the fastest growing segment of the fractured floppy legacy: moving large files between computers not connected to the same LAN. This was Syquest's territory when the only people who needed it were graphics houses and engineers. With the Zip drive, IOM captured the rising mass markets of the home-office, tele-commuters, students, and other non-techies. Then with the Jaz they went head-to-head against Syquest in their own market and won. But if these are the only types of people who will need their drives, IOM will not do well What does IOM need to do to make their drive a must have for ALL computer users? They need to concentrate on making the Zip into the one device that can do something that the floppy does poorly and nothing else can do: be the Windows Emergency Boot Disk. If they can do this one thing, every manufacturer will make the Zip a standard on every new computer. If anyone else beats them to it, their installed base of drives will not save them. If Imation partners with Microsoft before they do, you will see an immediate change in OEM's. If they wait too long and someone develops a bootable, rewritable CD or DVD, they will have missed their chance at ubiquity. For these reasons, the most important announcements this year were that Norton had a Zip Recovery product, and that BIOS programmers were making the Zip bootable. In this war, installed base means nothing except the attention it gets in Redmond. The best marketing efforts are to the motherboard suppliers. The most important OEM's don't do hardware. Iomega can win this war. My money says they can do it. Ockham Next post: Clik! Disclaimer: This is not a solicitation to buy this stock, but if you are going to buy, please do so before Feb 20th :-)

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/7/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: Mel Boreham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Hi Doctor I, Please see if you can influence the powers that be at IOM to carry the Conference Call on www.vcall. com as this would make a tremendous audience for all to hear (live) or by replay. Hope they can work it out, if not now for the upcoming CC, maybe at least sometime in the future. Question...? What is IOMEGA doing to add either the Zip or Clik! storage solutions to the hot selling sub- $1000 PCs? This seems to be a natural application for them! Question...? What ever happened to the "Zip on a Chip" project with the multiple mfg. partners that was announced over a year ago? Are we going to see something come of this pretty soon? That's all for now... My best regards to you for the New Year! Mel

To: DR. IOMEGA who wrote (42639)	1/17/1998 11:17:00 PM
From: Tom Gebing	Respond to of 58324

Dear Doc, earlier this month you opened the door for questions or comments that might be of interest for the upcoming conference call. Please review the following; 1) Other then typical quarterly financial results ( which should be great ), please cover the projections for the upcoming years internal business plan to the extent that is possible. 2) Advertising plan for the year. As you are aware, the new sub 1000 trend ( as well as the large existing base ) is a tremendous market for upgrading with internal or external units. For example, What is the advertising and or marketing plan to take advantage of this huge upgrade opportunity ? 3) Please review the progress made to date for the Click. Both in meeting the availability schedule and in OEM support. Have any OEMs been signed yet for inclusion of Click in their 98 products ? 4) Update on the Noami situation and exactly what is being done to fix the apparent patient loop holes. Please help everyone understand the full potential impact , if awarded by the courts . If they should win what is their production capacity ? Its my understanding that the company that manufactures the disk production equipment has been prohibited from selling to anyone other then Iomega. Please verify such. If Noami did buy some of their manufacturing products , what is the life span of such equipment and can they get replacement parts from the original manufacturer ? 5) Review the status on the laptop zip, status on smaller version ( 12 mm), 98 advertising campaign and has it met sales expectations ? 6) Your Jaz 1 and Jaz 2 pricing goals. 7) Any new products on the horizon ? Please discuss if possible. I am sure you are aware of what has happened to the stock price in recent weeks. This upcoming conference call will be crucial in the intermediate price action. As per the announcement concerning the stock split , the decision was made based on what was determined to be necessary to insure new and existing hires. Thats fine, but it has hurt the investment view of the company and us ( its share holders ). We all realize the importance of quality personnel. Therefore , I will not get into a lengthily discussion . We all fell the quarterly results will be there , but can we get the kind of conference call that will bring back the investment outlook of the company and stock appreciation. The tone and direction of the CC will be the key to all. In my opinion K. E. is an excellent marketing and operations manager. Now can he be a top Wall Street CEO ! Doc, thanks for your help and words of wisdom you provide to us on the thread. Someday this type of media will replace the special meetings with the analysts and provide all an equal opportunity to company information first hand. Ever share holder or investment person should be entitled to the same information at the same time. Couple of suggestions;.... their should be a section (hellip) on the IOM web site that allows this type of feedback to management and also for people who are not techies to ask simple questions to the knowledgeable. Most are not computer literate and do not know the difference between ( including me ) IDE, ATAPI, SCSI etc. and what is required to use with their system. Keep in mind that the key to selling to the mass is " Keep it simple by making it simple " Regards, Tom