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

To: Andrew Shih who wrote (48652)	2/23/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 58324

All - Just caught up after a few days away. I'm going to try to spend less time around here because I feel that the time could be spent more productively. I'll just have to deal with my addiction in my own way. You guys seem to do fine without me. Eventually, most of the salient points come out. I do have one comment about Kiz 100 from the Fool board. He's quoted as saying that he "designed" the Zip, then that he worked on the design team. But he says that he worked on the team in May of 1995. I seem to remember that Zip originally was shipped in March of 1995. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, because surely someone either here or on the Fool Board would have noticed such an apparent contradiction. But surely by May of that year, the Zip design was already final. - Allen

To: Andrew Shih who wrote (48652)	2/23/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Pullin-GS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

[PalmPilot] only has 2 MB of RAM+ROM Well! I must say I feel insulted! <G> It looks like I've been pulled into another "size matters" argument..*sigh<VBG> Let me explain: My pilot has 2 Meg of RAM, and 2 Meg of ROM...that's FLASH ROM...can load apps into it, not taking valuable bat. power (It's nice being able to heavily use the pilot for weeks (often over a month) at a time on one set of AAA batteries. Unlike it's big cousin WIN CE beasts that use heavy AAs for a few days/hours at a time....and thats without the PCMCIA card modem that lasts about 30 minutes.) exchange2000.com There are commercial cards available for PalmPilot giving up to 5 Meg if you like, not to mention every program you can think of. But the Motorolla Dragon Ball CPU can address 32bits worth of Memory....that's alot more than your average quad-cpu intel 333 MHZ servers....but it really is'nt needed, so why load it up with fat? Some application that are available today. Linix (Yes, the OS) SMTP/POP3 Email Spread sheets Aviation tools Astronomy tools Medical references/tools conversion utilities Scientific plotting calculators Games (pack man, tetris, missle command, chess, all card games, puzzles, etc,) Spell checkers/thesaurus Lanquage translators GCC development environment (write your own apps) PPP/TCP/IP stack telnet Net News A web brouser A chat client VT100 term A quicken conduit to your desktop quicken And the usual PDA scheduler/telephone/simple-calculator/memo-keeper All this integrated into a simple to use desktop environment if you like. But the CE devices now have around 16MB RAM* Yes, that can be done, but they cost bucks. Typically you get about 2-4 meg depending on the flavor. & 12MB ROM. WIN CE is indeed a pig...I'm supprised they did'nt just put a disk on the device...heck the CE devices are too big to fit in a shirt pocket, whats another couple of ounces? And the CE computers are bulky even in a coat pocket....hardly what I consider a PDA. I've got a lap top for that (64Meg, thankyou very much <G>).