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To: Troy Shaw who wrote (6131)	1/19/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Respond to of 10072

Troy, Thanks a lot for the additional in-depth background information about Iomega. The more we understand the company the better all of us will understand the pros and cons of our investment in Iomega. My brother ran over one (intentionally) with his 1/2 ton GMC truck. The metal shutter on the disk was a little bent from his "pressure test." So, he had to pull the shutter off before putting it in the drive. I thought he was crazy to do it, but the disk still worked fine. What a story......I know of a similar one. About two years ago one of the regular posters on the AOL Motley Fool board was carrying a Zip disk (with some very valuable data on it) in a side jacket pocket on a snowy night in New York. To his dismay, he discovered that the disk had fallen out of his jacket and he walked back some distance in the snow looking for it. Lo and behold, he found the Zip disk in the street with tire marks on it. After he got home, he wiped the disk off thoroughly and cautiously inserted the Zip disk in his drive. To his relief, the disk performed flawlessly as if nothing had happened to it. Both of these stories are real testaments to the ruggedness of Zip disks, and to the engineering innovation behind their development. Dave