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

To: sheila rothstein who wrote (51868)	4/3/1998 12:08:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

ORB is in beta now. What's interesting about the orb is that it is hard drive technology, so it's much faster than an Iomega drive. Plus the capacity is 2 gig. That's alot of drive space. The only thing that make me wonder about the true potential of this market is that the run-of-the-mill person doesn't need this kind of storage. Only people who are artists, songwriters, or anybody recording lots of graphics or music or video. Most of us just need 100meg or less, but we'd like it for as cheap as a floppy, not for as expensive as IOM has made it. If IOM had just, gotten the price down to $50-75 for the drive and $5 or less for the disk, they would be THE standard. No competition. Oh, well.

To: sheila rothstein who wrote (51868)	4/3/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>>Is the ORB drive or the Nomai drive in stores yet? SR<< Sheila, the Castlewood web page was updated yesterday to reveal that Orb is being beta tested in the real world right now, and shipments of EIDI internals will begin next month. Then Parallel port in June, then SCSI in July. Sheila, Jaz is toast. Orb is much faster than Jaz 2, much less expensive than Jaz 2, has an edge in capacity over Jaz 2, and more reliable than Jaz 2. For %^@&'s sake, Orb's only $199 for 2.1 Gigs! Syquest SparQ is history as well. This'll teach 'em its bad business to p*ss off Mac users by not making SCSI versions! I strongly suggest any potential investors of removable drive stocks to wade through the putrid yellow, blue, and purple colors of the castlewood web site to see how their IOM investment is going to go up in smoke. castlewoodsystems.com