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

To: John Lacelle who wrote (52230)	4/10/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 58324

RE: ZIPs in notebooks John, Yes, the LS-120 is backwards-compatible, and the Zip isn't, but how long are you willing to sit there drumming your fingers on the desktop as the LS-120 in your notebook reads and writes long files? And if you want to share a large file with others who have desktops, where are you going to find a desktop with an LS-120 in it? Just about any decent-sized operation now has at least one external parallel Zip around someplace, at a minimum. At least that's been my experience in the past few months. When you talk to your various business associates at other places, ask them, in an offhand "oh by the way" manner, if they have a Zip drive somewhere handy just in case you need to send them a large file or a bunch of files. You'll see. I agree with you about Imation's deep pockets. Sony, too. Nobody ever said becoming a standard would be easy or risk-free, and if Iomega doesn't stop being greedy, lower their prices a la the Model T, and keep up with the times by producing a higher-capacity Zip (which is the equivalent of Ford offering colors and a V-8 engine rather than sticking with "any color as long as it's black"), then it's asking for trouble. Roy, Utah, should look at what happened to Ford in 1926-1927. They can't maximize their margins now and maximize their chances of becoming the uncontested standard at the same time. Cheers, Tom (long IOM)