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

To: Reseller who wrote (48789)	2/25/1998 3:17:00 AM
From: Reseller	Respond to of 58324

Stuff... For those that are IOMegians and still hanging, just a couple of comments. I received just one Buz today out of an order of 15. I know that I was one of the first in line for these but apparently they are being rationed and my 14 remaining are on the way. The one thing that I noticed right off the bat was labeling on the top and side identifying equipment that it wasn't compatible with most of it being older equipment. This must have been what the delay was about as the labels were added on after the box was printed. Didn't get a chance to play with but will be looking at it tomorrow. The cost was $165.00 with a retail of around $199.00. Should get good retailer support with these margins. There was a post put up on the AOL board that refutes the claim that the mere removal of the light baffle would allow the same non IOM disks to work in the laptop and desktop. ****************************************************************************** I don't believe the situation is as bleak as you picture it. Nomai has been able to design around the retroreflector patent by using a concave mirror which is tailored to the optical path length of the desktop drive. To make a disk compatible with the laptop drive Nomai needs to use a differently shaped mirror (or infringe on the retroreflector patent). The two Nomai disks will each be incompatible with the other type of drive. The light baffle which the Dutch court ordered Iomega to remove from the drive would make any concave mirror equipped disk incompatible with any drive which contained the baffle. Yes, this would have been better for Iomega. But, even without the light baffle, Nomai cannot make a disk which is compatible across the entire Zip drive line. Iomega can "advertise" this fact as much as it wants. BTW, I think the Dutch court decision is similar to two decisions in the US in the past: one involving the design of ink-jet cartridges for HP printers (early 1990s) and the other involving the design of the connectors on IBM mainframe peripherals (early-mid 1980s?). In both cases (HP/IBM) were restrained from making modifications which the courts believed to have the sole purpose of restricting a competitor's ability to compete. Ira Smilovitz ****************************************************************************** Ira, I hope you don't mind me bringing your post here Regards Reseller