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

To: Kashish King who wrote (45437)	1/25/1998 1:55:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>>In the latter case, you only need access to a Zip drive on the network so why in the world would you need Zip drives on every computer? . . . Frankly, it sounds like a very badly run, seat-of-the-pants computer network you have there.<<< Your concept of a productive network is very typical of the innane systems being put into the large corporations today. These systems are nearly unworkable for people who have to do original work requiring large data files (engineering design and graphics for example). Once you've gone through a server crash and lost most of that day's work, you really begin to see the value of Zip disks that you keep in your possession. I should only have access to a Zip drive? Give me a break! For the cost of a Zip drive, less than $150, you feel my time (better than $100/hr burdened) is so minor that I can wander off to another building each time I need to use the company Zip? I do all work to and from Zip disks. I can work with them at home - and it's safer. The US is, at this time, at its highest efficiency. Your networking concepts will do their best to halt this insane growth. Good luck

To: Kashish King who wrote (45437)	1/26/1998 8:53:00 PM
From: Eve Edelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

<<I'm puzzled by your assertion that Zip disks are far from noncritical because any new computer we get has to have one. Frankly, it sounds like a very badly run, seat-of-the-pants computer network you have there.>> Let me clarify. We are not required to get zip drives - people simply insist on them in every new computer we buy. Yes I grasp that people make CDs for archival storage. Finally, it is the Univ. of California Berkeley network - not exactly seat of the pants. I will now take a deep breath, ignore your remark, which was uncalled for - frankly - & get out of this office, I'm spending too much time in front of computers, whatever the storage medium. I'm going home to plot my takeover of IOM at bargain prices.