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To: Kansas George who wrote (6149)	1/19/1999 7:25:00 PM
From: Sosmartinov	Respond to of 10072

OK! I can't stand it anymore. The "technical" reason I wasn't worried about the HiFD (even though I'm waaay long on IOM though the debacle) is that I have closets, yes plural, with innovative Sony electronics that were great to use until they broke....and they always broke. Can't have that with data. By the same token, HP worries me and I'm glad it's really tough to get standard status as IOM is now.

To: Kansas George who wrote (6149)	1/19/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 10072

>I can't believe that with any reasonable testing that Sony wouldn't have found this problem?< These things are usually manufacturing process problems that sound good in engineering but are tough to implement in mass production. Yes, Sony felt pressure to ship as they'd announced. I'm sure that they were able to do pilot production runs and found that yields weren't good but that they could "test" the bad ones out. In the end, they found that the product could not be built in mass as designed. The inherent problem here is floppy read/write and high capacity read/write. Imation solved this by using contact recording, but the result is a slow drive. Sony was going for the best of both so they need to do contact recording for the floppy and fly the head for the 200 MB capacity. The result is that tolerances are so tight that the head does impact the media when it should be flying. Tough thing to do in a cheap mechanism.