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

To: Chucky who wrote (5174)	12/16/1998 7:07:00 AM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

To All: With the new Zip250 shipping, and occasional clearance prices for Zip100 disks (didn't buycomp do something similar with Jaz I disks?) Yes. I recently purchased three 1 Gb jaz disks for $24.95 each from www.buycomp.com. Hours after I placed the order, the price went right back up to nearly $70 per disk. The $24.95 price was available for about 4 days. does this mean the Zip 100 is ready to be phased out? I doubt if they phase out the 100 Mb zip drive in the foreseeable future because I believe it is "good enough" for the majority of users at a very attractive price per drive/disk with prices trending even lower. The 100 Mb zip disks can be Iomega's primary source of profit for years to come as the momentum of zip 100 inclusion in computers accelerates. As far as I'm concerned, someday (maybe three years) we will see the capacity of the standard floppy disk drive transition from 1.44 Mb to 100 Mb with no need for "backwards compatibility" to early 1980s technology. That's when Iomega will really hit it's stride....making "sinful" profits on it's patented disks. All of this is, of course, just my opinion and I've still got some pretty heavy bets on it. Dave