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

To: KM who wrote (54156)	5/5/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Raven McCloud	Respond to of 58324

Actually, I meant dribble, slang for drivel. Thanks for the correction though. Michael

To: KM who wrote (54156)	5/5/1998 10:44:00 AM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

US News Article: usnews.com >>Popularity is an important consideration if you will want to exchange disks with others. Next to the floppy, Zip is the most ubiquitous low-end medium. For now.<< Nevertheless, the author doesn't seem very knowledgeable. The author claims that Jaz is 2GB and costs $650. That's true for the Jaz2GB. Apparently she hasn't heard of Jaz 1GB. She seems to have a bias for Sony's HiFD. She claims to have actually seen one in operation, albeit "buggy". >>U.S. News was the first magazine to see HiFD in action, and while the early units were still buggy, we watched short videos running off them, and the quality was acceptable.<< She also has something to say about the LS-120: >>The Imation SuperDisk (also known by its techy alias, LS-120) and Sony's HiFD are battling to become the standard. Of the two, SuperDisk would seem the less promising: It can store only 120 MB of data as opposed to HiFD's 200 MB, and it's slow and noisy by comparison.<< Notice she takes it for granted that Zip is not in contention to be the new standard. You call this journalism? Philip