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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1826)	9/29/1998 11:00:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

All - Isn't it fascinating how some people place such great faith in any announcement by any company other than Iomega? Orb is shipping? Hmmm. To "selected OEM's". "Initially, the EIDE internal version will be limited to OEM's and Integrators to ensure the highest level of end user customer satisfaction." Why would end users be unsatisfied if they were able to go down to CompUSA and just buy one of these things? What this announcement doesn't say is that I can buy an Orb drive yet. I'll accept the terminology, and grant that Orb is "shipping," since I have no evidence that it isn't. But who cares until it's available in stores in quantity. - Allen

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1826)	9/29/1998 12:43:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

rr, also shipping in the next few months (expected) is Nomai's DVD (2GB) as channelled through IOM in the US (based on Nomai's Infinity 2000 technology). growth rate on DVDs next year is expected to top 200% according to Toshiba. by Nomai's reckoning the apparent shipment date of the DVD drive is still on schedule. you were real hot on DVD at one time, but i guess, it won't be important once IOM punts their DVD ball

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (1826)	9/29/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Nomai also offers a CDr (read only) and CDrw (read/write) drive with sales principally in europe (78% approx. in 1997); they expect to sell 6,500 CD units this year (already up from their originally projected number) and more than double that going into 1999 when you add DVD into the picture as well. interestingly they've not marketed heavily in the US for the drives (only 18% of sales went to the US in 1997). if they can increase their marketing efforts, through IOM, in the US market, one would expect that they'd be able to sell significantly more. nomai.com