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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ET who wrote (5052)	12/4/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Kevin Linder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9256

To All; I have a question for the more technical oriented that hang out on this thread. I follow the disk drive stocks and also removable storage. IOM has tremendous competition in the removable storage area with Imation's LS-120 and Sony's new HiFD. Both of which promote backward compatability with 1.44MB floppies. IOM, is of course, not backward compatible. I don't really know how I feel about the value of the backward compatibilty issue. What I was wondering last night, was if these drives are "backward compatible" are the also "cross compatible' with each other. I don't think it would be wise for a consumer to try to find this out by trial and error. I have no idea the effect on the market if this is the case. I would think it would tend to hurt Sony's more expensive drive. Just curious, Kevin Linder