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To: Yikes who wrote (834)	8/2/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Yikes, good post! You said it best. Regards Gottfried [eom]

To: Yikes who wrote (834)	8/2/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 10072

Iomaniacs will make up ANY excuse to try and justify Iomega's actions. This latest post by Yikes bears this out. This time, Iomega has ignored industry standards testing again and decided to not reveal important aspects of Vapor! If testing up to 500hz is so damn UNimportant, why is it that this is the range normally tested for Vibration by the entire drive industry? Use your brain, for Chrissakes. Besides, your example of Vibration by "with their bare hands" is sorely lacking in scope. Vibration is experienced in car rides, horseback rides, walking, jogging, operation near heavy equipment, basically any type of sustained movement. Iomega's Vapor! is proving to be a very delicate toy indeed in their own lab tests. When independent testing is released, get ready to hear some bad bad news. >>The Clik! spec lists the shock tolerance at 100 G. This means that dropping a digital camera will shatter its glass lense before breaking the Clik! drive.<< Your evidence, please? You obviously have very little understanding of G forces. Did you know that a 1 1/2 foot drop equals Iomega's maximum shock spec for Vapor!? A drop from 5 feet can cause momentary shock of over a thousand G's. But then again, you also obviously have the will to try and justify ANYTHING Iomega does or says. And that makes you a shill.

To: Yikes who wrote (834)	8/2/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 10072

Avoiding unnecessary aggravation Yikes, Thanks for the useful technical post, but there's an easier way to stamp out consistently misleading posts. Don't read 'em. About the only consumer commodity out there that can't stand a 1.0 G shock is a ripe tomato. (I exaggerate, of course, but not by all that much.) Why would ANYBODY be stupid enough to take a product within inches of introduction into the market with such fragility? Anybody who still reads his posts because there's the occasional useful antidote to excess bullishness in them has a much lower signal- to-noise-ratio tolerance threshold than I do. Cheers, Tom (long IOM)