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

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (42794)	1/8/1998 4:01:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re: Capacity and ATAPI.. Dale, just following up a little on the ATAPI version of the Zip drive. They have been available to all of the OEM's and resellers, not just the big guys. This has been concerted effort by IOM to satisfy product demand of the trade as a whole. The ATAPI drive is vastly different than any of the other available Zip drives. Although I'm not an expert on cost analysis, the difference appears to be substantial. These guys have gotten it down to a science, this is without a doubt their low cost model. A lot of the box makers are using Zip as an add on sale to improve their margins. The cost to me is $90.00 so these box makers ( paying a lot less ) are making an extra $80.00, + - with each Zip add on they sell. I guess that's good enough incentive to push the drives, the pricing pressure on these boxes will put extra emphasis on those add-on sales. When these drives first hit the street the cost was around $129.00 . One of K.E.'s Top priorities of better customer service has happened. These guys got the word and made it work. I've commented twice on this and I still want to say more. Last week I receive a special pin code to use for express trouble shooting from IOM. I was surprised to see the promotion of relationships to the smaller resellers and box makers. A plan coming together. Just one other thing, I did stumble across a OEM 5 pk internal SCSI Zips without controller in stock which is great for the MAC guys but doesn't do much for us IBM- ers, we need the controller. For the DOCTOR, I have some questions that I would like to submit in the upcoming conference call if you could be so kind to consider. Looking forward to a great quarter. Reseller

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (42794)	1/8/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Re: Capacity and ATAPI I have a feeling that we will soon need a new ATAPI standard. 2 Channels and upto 4 devices is really not enough for the transistion period of DVD and NexGen Floppy. Right now Zip, Jaz/SparQ/Syjet, CDR, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM are all good candidate for ATAPI devices. IMO, we really need a 4 channels ATAPI standard but this will substantially increase the complexity of ATAPI. If this is possible, we can even implement a low-cost EIDE based RAID! aC