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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jwk who wrote (58062)	11/30/1998 3:33:00 PM
From: michael liu	Respond to of 58324

IOM will do good during XMAS season. Syquest is out of business. I don't think any big box maker will bundle syquest product. So, Zip is the only choice for end users. Michael

To: jwk who wrote (58062)	11/30/1998 5:14:00 PM
From: Chucky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

I believe IOM sold the floptical tech. This is entirely different from Magneto Optical: floptical is magnetic media, while MO is more or less optical. MO could have taken off, but consumers weren't ready to shell out 500 for a drive and that's where Zip jumped in at $200. MO drive makers at the time wouldn't be able to generate revenue from the disks to be sold later. It looks like Apple may in part be moving toward a model like IOM by making consumer boxes and pumping out those MacOS updates--they have to have boxes out there to sell the upgrades. I don't know if you remember this article, but it's kind of interesting to look back at. It discusses the storage solutions available then and those on the horizon. PC Magazine -- March 12, 1996 Endless Storage zdnet.com "Note that the Laser-Servo 120 is a new-generation replacement for Insite Peripheral's 20MB Floptical, which Insite considers obsolete." "widely used for information interchange--particularly the SyQuest 5.25-inch drive, which is a de facto standard in the publishing industry." my how things change