Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Senthil Sankarappan who wrote (58197)	1/15/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: James Strauss	Respond to of 58324

Senthil: I agree that on first blush a floppy compatible Zip drive sounds good... But if it means big expenditures to produce a Zip drive with a short life span, it may not be in the best interests of the company to spend money to support yesterday's technology... Going full steam ahead with a more powerful Zip drive will help it win the marketing wars with "Slow Superdisk" Imation and others... Jim

To: Senthil Sankarappan who wrote (58197)	1/15/1999 11:02:00 AM
From: Cameron Dorey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

"a version of Zip which may be slower but will be compatible with old floppies..." Well, it just might be that they can't do it any longer. As I understand it, that technology was sold, and they probably would have to buy it back. Then, just what is the market for floppy-sompatible Zips? As Imation seems to be finding out, not much. Everyone's already got a floppy on his/her desktop, so why cripple the drive to have a second one? Makers of new boxes are always looking for inexpensive components, so they would be unlikely to include a FC-Zip unless it was really cheap (big loss for Iomega), which I would hope never occurred. Remember that Compaq is the only box maker to include Superdisk in their machines, and they still presumably have a stake in the drive. Cameron "If the probability of success is not equal to one, then it is darned near zero."