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

To: robert read who wrote (54057)	5/2/1998 3:23:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Robert, Great Find! >>In a separate announcement, CNF Incorporated stated that it plans to build a version of the clik! drive next year. Additionally, Microsoft Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation, InFocus Systems, Inc., LSI Logic, Sierra imaging and many other leading corporations issued endorsements and supporting statements for the clik! drives and disks.<< Philip

To: robert read who wrote (54057)	5/2/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 58324

RE: Gadgetguru I think the bottom line text says it all: "Text provided by Iomega."

To: robert read who wrote (54057)	5/3/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Mel Boreham	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

Mining the Gadget Guru's web site... Thanks for the URL to the Gadget Guru's site. Yes, I will agree with Rocky, the Anti-Iomega, that nearly all the stuff on the site is news releases from the named companies, but there is gold in some of the site. Just go to the Digital Camera section and look at the news release by Olympus on its new "megapixel" camera, the D-340L model, and when you read it you will find that Olympus is making a device which will allow easy dumps from the flash memory to 1.44 floppies. Their "Flash Path" device is a 3.5 inch floppy adapter, and the release goes on to say that once the 4 MB flash memory card in placed into its "floppy adapter" think of it as a 4 MB floppy! To find out more about this product, I went to another news release by Toshiba, who is the the company that makes the "Flash Path" which utilizes "Smart Media" flash memory cards made by Toshiba are about the size of a stamp and these are inserted into the Flash Path 3.5 floppy adapter which is then inserted into the regular floppy drive slot and the images from the digital camera are immediately transferred to the computer as J-PEG compressed digital image files, eliminating the need for cumbersome cables and parallel port connections. If you can use a floppy drive you can use Flash Path says Doug Freck, V.P. and Gen. Mgr., Toshiba Imaging Systems. Flash Path is immediately available at leading computer retailers and through direct mail catalogs. Mfg. suggested retail is $129. Not including any flash memory cards, but one comes with many digital cameras made by Toshiba, Epson, Fuji, Minolta and Olympus. Extracted from the "Text provided by Toshiba" at the Gadget Guru web site. This is a very interesting development and may have implications for both the Clik! and Sony/Teac Hi-fud product lines. The Olympus D-340L sounds like a heck of nice camera as well. Mel