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To: s. bateh who wrote (1933)	10/5/1998 2:35:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Further Update: CD-RW has come out of nowhere to all of a sudden be the floppy replacement. Who coulda known? Micron has dropped their Zips. Gateway is also dropping their Zips. These facts are now confirmed. Apple seems to also be phasing out Zips. Barely half of their configurations offer Standard Zips when before, the majority did. Even Compaq's Zip standard inclusion is falling on a model basis. Gateway is now leading the pack by including a CD-RW drive as STANDARD is their newest 450mz computers. No Zip. A DVD-Rom drive is also included. And at Comdex, it only gets worse. A whole crop of new CD-RW drives featuring Cirrus Logic's new high speed low cost CD-RW chipsets are set to debut. These new CD-RW drives are "Faster than Zip" (10x rewrite, 40x read) and the CD-RW media is MUCH less expensive. I just has a thought... remember those mini-CD discs in the 80's meant for single song distribution? They used a caddy to work in normal CD players. One point someone here made was that Zip discs could fit in your shirt pocket. I bet those little CD's could make a comeback as 100MB CD's (or whatever amount of data they hold) and cost $0.50 (compared to $10 for Zip) . Those little CD's easily fit in a pocket. I going to get in contact with TDK right now!