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

To: Francis Muir who wrote (43238)	1/12/1998 4:08:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 58324

RE: Partly OT Silly grammar skirmish, dilution, channel check FIDO, Yeah, yeah, but "Westward Ho!" is an exclamation, is it not? Besides, the last time I checked my notes from Ethics 101, "everybody is doing it" was not a valid excuse for breaking rules. Just for you, though, I'll break the usual rule and succumb to the idiocies of trademarking in this one case only, on this one thread, and from now on will use Clik!. You win. Congratulations! Remember, though, that when everything you read has not one, not two, not three, but four or more exclamation marks at the end of it, you'll no longer have any way of identifying a true exclamation or command, and this particular bit of punctuation won't mean anything any more. It's a bit like my academic colleagues insisting on posting all their notices on campus bulletin boards on flyers made of garishly-colored fluorescent paper and starting them with "SEX!" in bold letters (followed by "has nothing to do with this announcement" in small type). Once the entire campus is awash in such things, nobody reads any of them. The eventual outcome of dilution is valuelessness. Syquest!!!! investors take notice! Cheers, Tom! (long IOM) P.S. Go Iomega! (Sorry. I couldn't resist. I'm one of those boomers that Excelsior! Graphs identified as congenitally prone to overdoing it. <g>) P.P.S. Okay, just a little IOM! content. As of this past weekend, there are laptop Zips! available at the COMP! USA! in Oh! Albany!, New! York!. They're keeping them behind the counter with the memory upgrades and the WDG! hard drive specials, though. As far as I could tell from a distance, they were all CNF!s, for IBM! Thinkpads!. Don't quote me on that, though (or at the very least, if you do, keep your punctuation inside those pesky quotation marks.)