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

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (55928)	6/10/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: jessie mae	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

The reason the LS 120 is going nowhere is because the transfer rate is slow (500KB/S!! vs. 3.5MB/S, or 7 times slower than HiFD) and it has reliability problems. Wake up, and as Sun Yat Su said 2000 yrs ago, the key to victory is to know your opponent.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (55928)	6/10/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: jessie mae	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

BTW, the Zip is pretty good in terms of transfer rate, 1.44MB/sec.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (55928)	6/10/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Sony's HiFi manufacturing and sales partner, Teac, presently churns out about 95 million floppy drives a year. The intial cost to churn out HiFi drives will be much lower than what Iomaniacs think because a lot of the manufacturing capability is already immediately at hand. In addition, the presently weak Japanese Yen can only serve further to put more $$$ in Sony's pocket through American sales. To get a little glimpse of Teac's verstility, click here: teac.com Rest assured, even though Sony is huge by itself, it is not going about this alone. Unlike Iomega, whose greed is going to ultimately cost them their goal of floppy replacement.