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

To: Reseller who wrote (4422)	11/20/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Reseller	Respond to of 10072

My last post at Comdex.. Congrats to the folks at Iomega, Project managers, technician and general support people did an outstanding job representing Iomega and their stockholders. ( For those on the Fools board S.W. was pointed out as hanging around.. He didn't look too happy, IOM had an awesome product presentation . ) Although the entire pavilion was always busy Clik created the most interest, with it's booths constantly busy. Stopped in at the Teac booth and verified a ship date for the external version of Feb /March time frame with an internal version two months later ??. They had a demo of pictures flashing thru the system while attached to the HiFD drive and while I was checking it out it crashed, whoops. They had to reset the software, there's a big difference from loading pictures in and running from the system memory. Their demonstration implied that a copy was loaded with every picture. Leading NEC technician said that they were taking orders for USB Clik and would be shipping in the second week in January. A couple of things about their Clik. It's a lot smaller than IOM's version, IOM is providing the drive and NEC is incorporating their USB interface and surrounding case. I asked about an NEC USB 1.44 floppy and the answer was why would anyone want one. Websurfer people are going into mass production next month for a shipping target of January, street prices will be in the $250-$299 range. They claim to be ahead of the group and a major player in the field. My guess is that this might prompt others to follow suit. Visited the Fuji pavilion and was surprised to see Fuji branded Clik disks but the media expert didn't know when they would be shipping stating that IOM had control over that. These guys have to go, their support for Sony's drive is IMO shameful. I hope Mitsubishi can qualify Zip media soon. FWIW I'm long and as of today after converting options I'm longer. Regards Reseller