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

To: David S. who wrote (51739)	4/1/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Brendan2012	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>One, Iomega drops prices to a thinner margin for both drives and disks. My guess they can make the drives cheap enough to profit at $35 - 40 to OEMs, $50 retail, and disks at $2 to 3 wholesale, $4 to 5 retail.<< I just hope Iomega is able to do such drastic price cuts! Those prices would likely seal the fate of the floppy finally. Brendan

To: David S. who wrote (51739)	4/2/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Bill Hernandez	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Clik could very well be the great standard. In 1996 I wrote to Iomega and asked them to create a line of disks with less capacity like 25 and 50 megs. I told them I would be more inclined to give those away. Also, for everyday stuff it was easy to transport data on floppies, but nowadays a floppy just doesn't do it and Zip is almost overkill for the average Joe. (I don't dare trade my precious Zip disks away - too much $$$. Buy your own moocher.) We needed something in the middle and voila - N-hand. I hated that name and told them. Sounds embarassing. Anyhoo, since it took them forever to do nothing, the name was apt. But now Clik is here with a tiny drive. It could go anywhere in a pocket to anyone's machine. I think the demand will be enormous. It will be the mouse that roared.