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

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Respond to of 58324

That sounds like a regular floppy drive to me, just with a USB interface...yawn! Brendan

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 58324

Zead, re >The real Zip killer< My quick reaction is "huh?". So many words, so little info. But I'll reread it later.<g> GM

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Les White	Respond to of 58324

New wheels for an old car. eom

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: borb	Respond to of 58324

Zead, The Zip drive is the storage. USB is interface. Iomega has SCSI and parallel interface. Maybe there will be USB interface, too.??

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

This market lately has been really frustrating--everything that I have considered overvalued (DELL, AOL, AMZN, many large blue chips) has just continued to go up while everything I've considered undervalued (IOM, biotechs, smaller companies in general) just stagnates or goes down. :( Brendan

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/9/1998 9:50:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Zead - A very interesting article, except I didn't understand a word of it - it could have been written in the Cyrillic alphabet as far as I'm concerned. Maybe Allen will be kind enough to weigh in with an opinion; somehow he always manages to make the incomprehensible understandable.

To: Naggrachi who wrote (49605)	3/10/1998 12:40:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re: TEAC's planned USB Floppy Drive Zead - Sounds like a great solution to a problem nobody has. I would love to make this announcement comprehensible, but I can't, because I don't get it myself. It looks like they are talking about a standard 1.44MB floppy drive designed to be attached to a USB port. Every computer made has a floppy controller built in. USB (Universal Serial Bus) is designed to make all kinds of peripherals, such as scanners, keyboards, joysticks, Zip drives, dog polishers, etc., easier to connect to the computer. With USB, supposedly, you'll be able to connect all your devices in a big daisy chain, adding and removing devices at will. You're supposed to not even have to reboot the computer when you add a device. The system will simply see the new device and automatically enable it. Let's leave aside my doubts that this will work as painlessly as that. Why would anyone need to connect a floppy drive to a USB chain? Doesn't everyone already have a floppy drive? But wait, maybe this device would be useful for those new computers that come with a Zip drive, but no floppy. Yes, that must be it. People who need them will just buy el cheapo external floppy drives, and attach them via the USB port. Personally, I think it's screwy. - Allen