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

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (51790)	4/2/1998 1:18:00 PM
From: Andrew Shih	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Even better if IOM release a 10MB Zip disk for $2 to $3 each. Honestly I strongly believe the lack of backward compatibility will prevent Zip becomes the next floppy standard. It is a big inherent disadvantage and is too late to correct.<< I tend to disagree. While it may be a small disadvantage to the notebook users, I'd say that not being floppy compatible is no problem. Look at it this way...when 5.25" was popular and 3.5" was introduced, most computers had both drives for a while. Later there were combo drives capable of both 5.25" and 3.5". Once there are enough people using Zip or any other drive, the 3.5" compatibility will cease to have any value. I predict that whoever wins the floppy replacement race will be non-floppy compatible within 3 years. Even if HiFD becomes the standard, I wouldn't be surprised to see a 200-meg only version within a year or so. If Microsoft were to create a Norton Zip Rescue type of feature into Win98, it would do a lot to aid the removables market in general and kill off the 3.5" floppy. -Andrew

To: AreWeThereYet who wrote (51790)	4/2/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

*OFF TOPIC * Andy, I have read a number of articals on IDE CDR's and the recommend your second CDROM be a SCSI. If not then have your CDR as a master on the secondary IDE controller, and the CDROM a slave on the primary IDE controller. My former NEC IDE CDROM did not allow digital audio extraction, so I picked up a used 8x SCSI CDROM, and it works fine. I have read that you may get buffer errors when using an IDE CDR and IDE CDROM. As for the Zip disks, I don't think a 10 meg disk would fly. It wouldn't be popluar with me. I think the Zip disk should be reduced by 50%. Everything else is coming down, why not Iomega products?