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To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (4563)	11/24/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: Tom Carroll	Respond to of 10072

Zips in the 1970s (humor only) Cameron, No, no, it wasn't the RL02 or the RL01. It was a special TWENTY PLATTER version of the RL02, which is why it was a 100 MB Zip. It worked fine, but it cost six million dollars and nobody could figure out what to do with 100MB of data storage. They didn't make too many of them, so you may well have never seen or heard of it. Also, mimicking IBM at the time, all Iomega would do was lease it to you, so they took 'em all back and had them destroyed. Cheers, Tom (who first programmed in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 in 1966, and who's now long IOM)