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

To: rocky haag who wrote (54508)	5/10/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: rocky haag	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Intel better get busy: article below detailing Apple's new speed * Motorola Inc. on Thursday unveiled a new chip-design called AltiVec, which will supercharge its PowerPC chips, the brains inside Apple computers. AltiVec will make Macintosh computers run about 10 times faster than current PowerPCs.

To: rocky haag who wrote (54508)	5/10/1998 4:24:00 PM
From: robert read	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

you are so right bro. just a small quote from the article " The Verbatim plant makes two-megabyte computer floppy disks. It had been making about 16 million a month, but plans to cut production to about 8 million a month. Demand for Verbatim's diskettes has been dropping since computer applications have gotten larger. Companies such as Microsoft Corp. and America Online that once used millions of diskettes now ship much of their software on CDs, Moore said. CD-ROMs and products like high-capacity Zip disks can hold hundreds of times the data of a two-megabyte diskette. "With each new technology," Moore said, "it seems the lifespan of the product shortens.""