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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (6605)	1/22/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: Zakrosian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Darrell - Good response to rll (whose negative posts I welcome; they're very well reasoned). Have you seen the current Business Week? It has a decent writeup of the recent Zip developments How do you like your Zip drives? Easy? Or big? A pair from Iomega (888 446-6342 or www.iomega.com) offers a choice. The $150 Zip 100 USB (photo) uses the plug-and-play Universal Serial Bus to connect to any Windows 98 PC, iMac, or the new USB-equipped G3 Macintosh. Its translucent blue case matches the original iMac, but there's no word yet on whether it will match the new iMac colors. Unlike most USB devices that get their power through the USB cable, the Zip drive must be plugged into an AC outlet. If big is your game, Iomega has added the $200 Zip 250, whose disks hold 2 1/2 times as much data as the 100-Mb originals. It can be connected to PCs through a printer port or to PCs or Macs through a SCSI connection. It can also read original Zip disks, but the 250-Mb disks cannot be read by Zip 100 drives. Of more significance is the article adjacent to it. Titled "Digital Snapshots in a Snap", it unfortunately makes no reference to Clik! It's especially disappointing in light of the following passage: Sony Corp.'s Mavica digital cameras offer a different solution to the image-transfer problem. Instead of using memory cards, the Mavicas store pictures on ordinary floppy disks, which can then be inserted in your computer in normal fashion. I tried a $999 MVC-FD91, a high-end camera whose features and controls--including electronic image stabilization--will strike a still-camera user as odd but seem familiar to owners of one of Sony's popular camcorders. The problem is that the abilities of the camera outstrip the capacity of the floppy. At its highest-quality setting, the Mavica can get just one image on a disk. To make the concept work with high-resolution cameras, Sony has to find a bigger storage medium. A good indication of Clik!'s potential, though I suspect that its big success is further away than some of you think. I hope I'm wrong, but I'd guess that bringing a digital camera with a Clik! built-in would be a lot more difficult for a camera maker than for a PC mfr to include a Zip drive was.