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

To: Olapet who wrote (51384)	3/26/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

The next cc will tell...if they come out with the 15mil zip announcement and the fact that business has picked up overseas, etc. etc. etc. i see 16-18 in a year.....why? we own the market...in fact read last nights fool iom report....one analyst said that despite the bad news it should not matter much because syqt cannont produce enough, sony is not here, ls-120 is dead.....what do you see everywhere...zip, jaz, etc etc.....this will be a building point from here..imho

To: Olapet who wrote (51384)	3/26/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: Naggrachi	Respond to of 58324

<<I think they should exploit the fact that it takes 72 standard 3 1/2 inch disks to equall the capacity of 1 zip disk.....>> The whole world thinks that way and the funny thing is a 5 second spot in prime time, even, would do the trick if not a bombardment of ads on cable. The question is why isn't IOM doing it? I posted earlier about full page ads in USA Today, I think they were trying to make an attempt at it by calling the Zip diskette an office thingie. Thought the ads were the most effective that I've seen since they were trying to take the reader by the hands and show them what the hell is a Zip Zead