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

To: Cogito who wrote (47617)	2/12/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Cheeky Kid, All - Re: Zip Heads question I have just gotten off the phone with Iomega, where I was told that there's a pretty good reason why you might get conflicting answers to the question "Do Zip's read/write heads make contact with the media?" What I was just told is that there is a pad on either side of each read/write head of a Zip drive. That's two pads per head. The pads contact the surface of the media, and keep the read/write head suspended just above the surface. The read/write heads themselves do not make contact with the media surface at any time under normal operating conditions. I was also told that Iomega does not make detailed design documents available to the public, so I can't get written confirmation of this. I had formerly believed that Zip drives made use of the Bernoulli effect, but I was wrong about that. - Allen