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

To: rocky haag who wrote (54647)	5/12/1998 7:28:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>> But then again the 3.5 is dead<<' Don't get caught up in your little niche in the computer world. Just check out the AAPL thread, and you will see that the overwhelming majority of people there want floppy compatibility, and use floppies everyday. And, if Apple people still use floppies, you can bet the demand for them is even greater in the Windoze/DOS world, where applications don't fall as heavily in the multimedia realm as they do in the Mac Universe. The floppy is far from dead. College Computer Textbooks still include floppies to distribute data, small apps, and other files. Installers for various devices and peripherals are still distributed on floppies. Zip Installer is one of these for Chrissakes. Students turn in Wordperfect files (and other types of files) on floppy, where a 20 page report takes up about 50k of space. Turning in a $15 Zip disc would be a total waste of money. One floppy can even handle entire web pages. Outside of the US, the utilization of floppies (both 5.25 and 3.5) is even more pronounced than here. Several large corporations make billions of floppies per year, and make money doing it. The floppy's decline curve will last longer than Zip's as HiFi is rolled out.