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To: Reseller who wrote (7080)	2/5/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 10072

Article on EMC has positive implications for IOM relative to growth of storage market in general: pathfinder.com

To: Reseller who wrote (7080)	2/5/1999 9:47:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Received my AGFA ephoto 1680 camera today and I'm very pleased..<< Hope you have fun with it. >>The Clik! Drive is performing flawlessly., what a great product.<< I wouldn't doubt it in the short amount of time you've had it. But let's see how well it stands up over time at places like Disneyland or the Grand Canyon. >>The camera comes with a 4 meg Smartmedia card which will do 5 hi-res pictures, the cost for an 8 meg Smartmedia card is $50.00 and a 16 meg card cost $95.00, this equates to a storage value of around $5.00 per picture. << Your prices are horrible. I easily found (at www.pricewatch.com) 4MB Smartmedia for $16 and 8MB for $23. This brings your picture cost down to $1.21. >>The Clik drive cost around $225.00 but it comes with one 40 meg disk that that equates to a storage value of $250.00 worth of Smartmedia cards and there after every additional $250.00 worth of smart cards only cost $10 in Clik media. These are going to be an easy sell to anyone into digital photography.<< You should do more research. At rec.photo.digital, the Flop! drive is widely regarded as an unsafe mechanical device that will not be allowed to come into the mix. Reliable safe solid state is the way to go (at least according to the digital photo buffs there). $250 for the 40MB Flop! drive will buy you about 160MB of Smartmedia cards. There is no way in hell 98% of present digital camera users will use anything close to this amount before offloading to hard disc or CD-R. >>In the past there have been those claiming this card stuff to be indestructible, IMO this guy looks like it wouldn't take much to damage. << Smartmedia is much flimsier than CompactFlash. You could drive a car over a CompactFlash card and it would still work. I wish you well in your purchases, but I caution you to avoid using the Flop! drive and instead invest in more Smartmedia cards. It's cheaper and safer in the the long run.