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

To: David Colvin who wrote (57685)	10/10/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

>> Iomega had floptical technology (aka LS-120) and sold that technology due to a limited upgrade path and speed lmitations......then invented the zip drive instead. << Limited upgrade path? Probably not, 200+ MB floptical technlogoy is readily available today. Floppy technology OTOH is very limited (at least at that time). In fact they have to discarded the 3.5" form factor to accommodate 100MB data (a nice even number) and because of it, it created the biggest inherit disadvantage of Zip drive being not backward compatible with good old 1.44MB floppy. If Zip is backward compatible, there is really no need for LS-120 and HiFD. Xerox invented Laserprinter technology and the concept of GUI but it failed to utilize the market potential and now it is tracing HP for market share. I don't have time and not interest to keep track of how many Zip they sold. In fact I am not interesting in any IOM product at this moment. I am more interesting in the street price of HiFD and the newest information on Zip 200. I also hope that IOM realize the weakness of Zip and develop a cheap low capacity Zip disk (ie: 5MB and $2/ea). aC