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To: Naggrachi who wrote (7058)	2/4/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Respond to of 10072

<< Are you assuming that people will lend their disks to each other? The Zip drive has no other tangible uses (the CD rom can be used as a cup holder,) so to use the drive that came with their PC they will buy at least 110-pack disks, no? So how did you arive at the logic above? >> A person who actively goes out and buys a ZIP drive is much more likely to be a heavy disk user than one who buys a computer and is surprised by the extra hole in his computer! kp

To: Naggrachi who wrote (7058)	2/4/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: craigl	Respond to of 10072

>> Are you assuming that people will lend their disks to each other? The Zip drive has no other tangible uses (the CD rom can be used as a cup holder,) so to use the drive that came with their PC they will buy at least 1 10-pack disks, no? So how did you arive at the logic above? << My dad bought a computer a year and a half ago that had a ZIP drive in it and he has yet to use it. It's funny - he has a 6 GB hard drive, 64 MB RAM and a Pentium 200 but all he ever does is play Hearts and dial up AOL to check his stocks. I realize one anecdote does not even begin to tell the whole story and he may or may not be representative of "most" users, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were many more people like him. LC (still holding IOM, though)