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To: Chucky who wrote (4271)	11/17/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: Michael Coley	Respond to of 10072

Hurricane Comdex Hits Las Vegas By Glenn McDonald, special to PC World Hurricane Comdex descended on Las Vegas in full force on Monday, with more than 200,000 attendees streaming into Sin City for a week of exhibitions, products debuts, seminars, and speeches. Among the high-profile debuts was Iomega's new 250MB Zip drive. Long the leader in removable media storage, Iomega's 100MB drive was eclipsed recently by the 200MB HiFD drive from Sony. Back in the saddle again, Iomega says it will ship the 250MB Zip drive before the end of the year for a street price of $199. The company says 250MB Zip disks will sell for about $100 in six-packs. Read all about it in this report from the front, or get more Comdex news in our wrap up of day one. pcworld.com

To: Chucky who wrote (4271)	11/17/1998 4:51:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Rocky, won't that also help a Zip250 or Zip100 drive differentiate between the two different disk capacities: kind of like the little hole in the upper left corner HD vs. DD floppies?<< Yes, exactly, I may not have made this clear. The phosphoresent scheme is in order to differentiate the 250MB disc's capacity from the 100MB, as well as to deter counterfeiting. >> In what way is it convoluted?<< It seems to be a ID system made more complicated than necessary to determine which disc is inserted-- and purposely done so in order to deter counfeiting. Although it would seem possible to reverse engineer its wavelength and decay time specs, replicating it legally is probably impossible, and an effort to head off another Nomai debacle. I didn't say if it was good or bad, just more complicated than necessary.