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

To: KM who wrote (54808)	5/16/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

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To: KM who wrote (54808)	5/16/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

The following appeared on Usenet: <rec.photo.digital> --- On Sat, 16 May 1998 02:32:54 GMT, symmetry@my-dejanews.com wrote: >Since I installed a 1gb SparQ drive, I haven't used my ZIP drive much. It's >great for archiving photos. And when I accidentally broke it (removing the >cartridge incorrectly) I called Syquest. They didn't give me the third degree >at all. And they had a new unit FedXed overnight at no charge. How can you >beat that ? > >Norm Duncan > Glad to hear this; I just bought a SparQ 1 GB this week. If you figure it out, the cost of the media is 1/5 that of the 100 Mb Zip drive, per unit of storage. The Zip is (was) a nice machine (in its day.) But with scanned images running at 15 Mbytes, I'm spending nearly $2.00 an image just storing the damn thing on a Zip disk!!! It annoys me that the cost of the Zip media hasn't dropped an inch in the 2 years or so that I've owned the drive. rafe b. ----- If you'll notice, the image quality acceptable to this individual is 15MB-- yes, the same 15MB that I have been touting as necessary to give good image quality in a digital format. The Vapor! toy drive will only hold 2 of these images, 3 if you settle for a loss of picture quality. The Vapor! toy cannot be seriously considered as a professional piece of gear.