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To: Ben Antanaitis who wrote (5153)	12/15/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Respond to of 10072

I'm not sure about that.... isn't one disk included when you get a drive? That would give you a freebie for each drive shipped?? Freebie or not, they are still part of the tie ratio. BTW, there are many views as to what the tie ratio means. In the "early" days of Iomega most accepted the tie ratio as the number of disks that were purchased (including free ones) over the life of the drive. This can become a real bear to figure out...if even possible. I believe Iomega now calculates the tie ratio for their purposes on a quarterly basis, i.e., the simple calculation of the number of zip drives shipped divided by the number of disks shipped. Much easier to get to a real number. Michael Coley has lots of data on this stuff. Dave p.s. I personally have 17 disks for one zip drive originally purchased in April, 1998...sooo I guess my tie ratio is 17 to 1 even though I didn't buy all the disks at the same time (including the free on that came with the zip tools on it).