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

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4277)	11/17/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Respond to of 10072

"The phosphoresent scheme [Zip 250] is... to differentiate... as well as to deter counterfeiting... I didn't say if it was good or bad, just more complicated than necessary." Golly, Elaine, I can't think of a SIMPLER system for this than pulling a chemical off the shelf and dusting/impregnating/coating the reflective triangle. It's simplicity personified. Add to it a really simple light receiver/timer chip, and you've got a system which should add... at least $0.0002 to the price of the disk and maybe $0.005 to the price of the drive. I should hope that Iomega has enough leeway in their manufacturing costs to absorb this. I really think this thing is great (as if you couldn't tell). Does anybody have any information on the technical specs of this new disk, the phosphor used, something like that? Inquiring minds want to know! Cameron "It's okay to use the Polaroid Land Camera on a boat."