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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (2583)	10/23/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: DEMON VIII	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (2583)	10/23/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Kevin	Respond to of 10072

I would hope that folks here would either skip his posts or respond and challenge his views on Iomega, but I'm beginning to get bored with wading through continuous discussions about Rocky instead of Iomega. You could, of course, take your own advice...and skip them. Please also remember this thread was started (hence the name) because people got tired of the little turds messages long ago, in hopes he would have the decency to leave his contrived b.s. (paid for or not) on the other IOM threads. I know Rocky will respond, so as far as my own history in IOM: Fortunately, I made a we bit of money in IOM, admitedly only getting out because a covered call was exercised against me. Now, I am once again long at 3.75 and quite happy indeed.

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (2583)	10/23/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: craigl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

I agree. Seriously, could one person be responsible for IOM dropping from the 30's down to where it is now? If that were the case, IOM should be in the 100's by now since 95% of the people who post here say what a great company IOM is and how they're blowing out product, becoming the standard, etc. Yeah, I know, you're just trying to save the poor newbies who may get sucked in by Rocky's so-called FUD. Well, anybody who invests based on what one person, or even 100 people, say on a chat board gets what they deserve anyway. If I were a psychology student, this thread would be great for studying the peculiarities of humans. LC

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (2583)	10/24/1998 3:42:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Looks like Iomega could be preparing for life without Fuji ATOMM technology. This was posted on TMF board (boldface is mine): boards.fool.com October 23, 1998 Nikkei English News via NewsEdge Corporation : TOKYO (Nikkei)- Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. plans to enter the Zip-disk business, marketing the disks in Japan, the U.S. and Europe by year-end. The firm will be supplied on an original-equipment-manufacturing (OEM) basis with Zip disks from their U.S. developer, Iomega Corp. Fuji Photo Film Co. (4901) now makes the internal magnetic media for Zip disks, which Iomega assembles in a case and markets. Iomega also supplies the disks on an OEM basis to Fuji Photo Film, Hitachi Maxell Ltd. (6810) and others. At first, Mitsubishi Chemical will be supplied on an OEM basis as well, but the firm is also pushing development of its own media in order to cut into the supply sourced from Fuji Photo Film. This past summer, Mitsubishi Chemical suspended production of regular floppy disks, whose profitability had been deteriorating badly. ------- I suspect that Iomega is trying to get Mitsubishi Chemical to come up with a formula that works like Fuji's ATOMM technology. The portayal in the news release of a strategy to "cut into the supply sourced from Fuji Photo Film" is ridiculous. Why would Iomega want to piss off its only source of patented media if indications hadn't already been made by Sony-allied Fuji that they were pulling ATOMM tech media from Iomega? What is amusing is that there is no guarantee that anything else Mitsubishi comes up with will be as good as Fuji's ATOMM tech. And Nomai's media tech was proven by Iomega and their "independent labs" to damage Zip drives. So much for them. So reliability for Zip drives and discs is now completely up in the air. Just wait till the Street gets word of ATOMM-tech Zip discs disappearing from the face of the Earth. And the new vanguard of ATOMM-tech? Why, Sony/Teac/Fuji 200MB HiFD, of course.