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To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6469)	1/22/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: KM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Briefing's cheerful take: Iomega (IOM 9 -5/8) Good news, bad news deal... First the good news, company beat the street by two cents in gaining $0.07... The rest is bad... Revenues fell 8%... Company earned $0.13 in the year ago period... Worst of all, IOM warned that it would post break even results next quarter when street was looking for gain of $0.04... News will damage confidence in turnaround story, sending traders heading for the exits.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6469)	1/23/1999 3:03:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 10072

Thanks, Philip. I was wondering about Clik! battery life. Looks like the unmentionable one was wrong again. He must have written 100 posts about how Clik! would consume so much power it would be useless.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (6469)	1/24/1999 4:11:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>>I determined that the Clik! drive could completely fill six (6) Clik! disks before the battery was completely discharged. Since I used an 8MB SmartMedia flash card each time, I transferred data from the flash card to the Clik! drive 5 x 6 = 30 times. (Remember, 8MB x 5 = 40MB or the capacity of the Clik! disk.)<< Very impressive.....NOT. You have just demonstrated that Flop!'s battery life is terrible. The necessity of the Flop! disc to continuously rotate in many portable applications (like a portable audio player) is an Achilles heel (mechanical reliability notwithstanding). You see, using Iomega's own Flop! drive specs (700k/sec transfer rate), we get an average of: 40MB divided by 700k/sec (average transfer rate) = 57 seconds to fill one 40MB Flop! disc. We then multiply 57 seconds by your 6 Flop! discs to get UNDER 6 MINUTES OF BATTERY LIFE FOR FLOP! After these 6 discs (according to you), the battery is "completely discharged." This is a joke. Flop! uses up batteries like water, exactly as I predicted it would. Please feel free to conduct your own real world test of Flop! and time exactly how many minutes a battery can last while the Flop! disc rotates.