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To: Craig Richards who wrote (2354)	10/19/1998 11:45:00 AM
From: John Solder	Respond to of 10072

I don't follow the "Joe Sixpack can buy 40 disposable cameras for same price as a click drive" argument. The target audience for digital photography is much more advanced. That brings up the next point: In order to sell the digital photography concept to the masses any buyer will need five things. 1) Digital camera 2) PC 3) some drive clik! or flash 4) internet connection to send Grandma pix and more than likely 5) a good color printer. I don't think the PC market is mature enough for everyone to have a good quality color printer at home at an affordable price. A small percentage of households actually have an internet connection (small in relation to the number that have cameras). So for this digital photo revolution to take off, the output media issue needs to be resolved. We need all these copy shops to be able to take click/zip disks or online downloads of data and print nice 8 1/2x11 color prints from them. If they can do that for less than the cost of traditional cellulose film and printing then people will migrate. Until then I think the photo niche for click will remain tiny. They may do better in the personal organizer backup area but that too is minimal. So where are all the Clik! drives to be sold ? I really would like to see a 200MB backwardly compatible zip introduced that is bootable. My personal feeling is that R/W CD's are too advanced for regular "Joe Sixpack" Zip is the way to go for your everyday needs.

To: Craig Richards who wrote (2354)	10/19/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Another aspect of this, is that it should be possible to format a Zip disk via the operating system that includes a complete version of the operating system on it. Remember when you could format a floppy disk with a copy of DOS on it to use as a back up boot disk? This is what users should be able to do through Windows with a Zip disk. Iomega should be working with Microsoft to get this functionality into the next patch release of Windows 98.<< Craig - It has been possible to format a Zip disk with the operating system for quite some time. Windows 95 can do it, and so can Windows 98. Of course, your system has to be able to boot from the Zip disk to make this worthwhile. My PC can, because it boots from a SCSI disk, and I can set it up to boot from any device on the SCSI chain. The other half of what you're looking for, PC makers installing the Zip as drive A: seems to still be a problem, though. Micron announced they were going to do this more than a year ago, but it never happened. - Allen - Allen