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

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 1:56:00 AM
From: Michael Coley	Respond to of 58324

RE: clik! is dead? First vapor to market... >> looks like someone is beating them to the punch, and at a far lower price. << You've been listening to Rocky too much. Didn't you read this part? Ioptics' reader will sell for approximately $200. Availability is expected by mid-1999. clik! is not just a concept. It is a working prototype that has been shown and will soon be to market. - Michael Coley - wwol.com

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 58324

Other, from the article you linked to (thanks)... 128MB data cards are expected to cost between $2 to $3, a very low price. By comparison, the price of a 4MB flash memory card, now often used in digital cameras, runs from $50 to over $100. Ioptics' reader will sell for approximately $200. Availability is expected by mid-1999. It is my experience that unproven devices nearly always miss their ship dates, especially if they are this far out in the first place. Announcements like this remind me of my dog marking his territory. <g> GM

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

I'm not sure, but that device sounds read only to me, as OROM would imply. Is so, that is not direct competition with Clik! Brendan

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: Les White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Click killer? Sorry to disappoint you, OtherChap. You haven't found the click killer. The OROM is described as "Ioptic's reader" in the article, not "read/writer". This device will hardly be of much use to a digital camera unless you want to use the viewer as a slide viewer for prerecorded images like those little plastic viewers from the 50's with the rotary slide disk. It sounds like OROM is a mini CDROM for hand-helds. It will have to be packaged with expensive flash memory in order to enable the device to read and write. Keep looking. Les

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

OC - The Ioptics device looks extremely cool. Note that they expect to be shipping in mid '99, though. And there is no reason to assume that they actually will ship then. I wouldn't say they are beating Iomega to the punch. I'm sure even you expect Clik! to have shipped well before that. - Allen

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 11:52:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Re: Ioptic's Vapor! killer Ioptic's Vaporware= 128MB for $2 to $3? 10 times faster than a CD, 10ms access time Iomega's Vapor!= 40MB for $10, slower than a Zip drive, slow access time Let me see, which one would I buy....hmmm...

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Scott Moody	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

You need to read that a little more closely (card sized disc). OROM = Optical READ ONLY Memory?

To: OtherChap who wrote (50714)	3/19/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 58324

OtherChap, Thanks for the link. I was wondering what might take the place of the CD-ROM on the new very hardware that is coming along (handheld and very thin notebook computers). The Ioptics usnit looks like a good solution to that purpose. Ioptics' device will work beautifully with Clik! and IBM's and HP's very tiny hard disks to give the functionality of desktop systems to the very small portable market. What's encouraging is that the price points at introduction for all of these items indicate to me that, within a couple years, the portable stuff will be very affordable. I don't know for sure - but I think the portable market will eventually be much stronger than the desktop market. Jeff