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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4212)	11/16/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Steven Messina,L.M.T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

I dropped a CD on it's edge yesterday. Guess what? It broke <e>.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4212)	11/16/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Elaine - Well, if a guy whose job depends on selling CD-RW drives says it's poised to be come the standard, that's good enough for me! I am convinced, Elaine. I'm folding up my tent and going home. NOT! Sheesh, what a huge load of HYPE that press release was! 2.7 million CD-RW drives will have been sold by the end of the year, according to the story. And next year, they will be made obsolete by DVD-RW. I don't see anything in the story to indicate that the new DVD-RW drives will be able to write to CD-RW disks, although they will be able to read them. And someone correct me if I am wrong (like I have to ask) but the last time I looked the vast majority of CD players in use could not read CD-RW disks, since most of them were made before the multi-read spec was created. So this statement, ''The phenomenal success of CD-RW is a direct result of its ability to create 650 MB discs that work in hundreds of millions of CD and DVD readers,'' is very misleading. - Allen

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4212)	11/22/1998 2:22:00 AM
From: maaad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Rocky, CD's are like cassette or VHS tapes. NOT Iomega's products! They only have one viable fuction. They are a cheap way (LOW MARGIN) to distribute data. This is why AOL and Microsoft have used them in their marketing campaigns. Iomega is not in this business. They are in the business of Making Money by becoming the new standard in USEABLE!!, removable storage for not only computers, but ALL forms of devices; including cameras, video recorders, and printers at print shops like Kinko's; the list continues to grow. maaad