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

To: stock bull who wrote (48821)	2/25/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: Spank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

I think the COD thing is a bunch of sh!t. People abuse things, they break, and to avoid culpability, they say "I didn't do anything." someone going over to a friend's house who was dumb enough to buy a SyQuest drive, they take carry a load of stuff, including their zip drive, and while fishing for car keys, it falls on the driveway. Boom. click death. then they call iomega and complain and say "The drive was just sitting there on it's silk pillow and it just started clicking one day" I'd be interested to see stats on how many internal drives had cod. Someone posted on TMF quite a while back that things DO fail. His toaster had "toast doesn't pop up death" for instance. Yeesh. -Spank

To: stock bull who wrote (48821)	2/25/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Stock bull, "PS: Do you known if IBM uses the Zip in PC's that are sold in the U.S.?" I have a friend who purchased a 166 Mz IBM Aptiva with a built-in zip drive about 8 months ago. He is very happy with the machine but has never used the zip drive and hasn't bought any zip disks since he had never used a computer before. I don't think, at this stage, he would be comfortable using a simple thing like Windows 95 explorer. In time he may become a "power" user, who knows? He, primarily, plays games on it. Actually, he and his girlfriend jointly bought it. Up till now she had only used MACs. She teaches and uses it for her job. David