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

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43328)	1/13/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Teddy	Respond to of 58324

RE: ...my girlfriend's Dad... said, "I want my daughter back by 8:15." I said, "The middle of August? Cool!" Cameron, Thanks for the tip. I'll let you know how i make out. <g>

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43328)	1/13/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

*OT* Einstein's Birthday Sorry, Cameron, but Einstein was born on MARCH 14th, not January. It was in 1879, in Ulm. I should know. I was born on his seventieth birthday (March 14, 1949), in the same hospital where he died, a mile away from where he lived, and my Aunt Ann was one of his attending nurses at that same hospital when he died. Small world. Other March 14th types include actor Michael Caine, composer Quincy Jones, Hank Ketcham (creator of Dennis the Menace), photographer Diane Arbus, and astronaut Frank Borman. Among those born on JANUARY 14th was, uh, Benedict Arnold. <g> Cheers, Tom (long IOM) "It is better to check facts than to eat crow." <ggg> P.S. Your quotations are a trip and a half.

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (43328)	1/14/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: Cameron Dorey	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Thought I'd better contribute something about IOM here. Any of the rest of you gotten your Zip drive from Surplus Direct yet? Mine (for my home machine, now I've got one on each box I work with anywhere) came yesterday. With excitement, I tore open the box, and found: A Zip drive A ribbon cable. Well, crap, I thought immediately. No installation floppy, no Zip Tools disk, no 1-page "Quick Start" flyer, no faceplate, just a bunch of styrofoam peanuts and catalog of SD specials. But, being the kind of guy I am, I tore open the wrapper, tore open the computer (Cyrix 6x86L-PR200+ box, Win95), found a power connector and ribbon cable, plugged the Zip in, held my breath, and turned it on. Chunk, chunk, chunk, and lo and behold, there it is: Removable Disk (E:)! I don't care what anyone says, somebody did it right, no software installation at all, just another drive waiting to be used (and I had brought about 50 MB of stuff from work to put on it). So it isn't ATAPI, even after reading what Dale pointed me to in e-mail and on this board (thank you, Dale, I apologize for not doing so sooner), I don't know how it could be easier or a lot faster. Especially for $71.88! Cameron "In my day, we didn't have hand-held calculators. We had to do addition on our fingers. To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated."