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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (7599)	2/21/1999 11:58:00 PM
From: Scott Moody	Respond to of 10072

For RR nytimes.com.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (7599)	2/22/1999 12:02:00 AM
From: Scott Moody	Respond to of 10072

For everybody but RR browsemaster.com

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (7599)	2/22/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

>>Any sort of evidence whatsoever to back up your claim about "protection" while the drive is engaged would be appreciated. A link somewhere? An Iomega spec sheet that I've missed? An independent lab's test results? << Any evidence that you can point to that it isn't? Zip uses a low-friction spacer pad, which prevents the head from contacting the spinning media. Do you have some evidence that Clik! doesn't use the same design? The fact that Iomega recommends the disk be removed from the drive while moving doesn't prove anything either way. - Allen

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (7599)	2/22/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

<< Iomega Flop! Owner's Manual states emphatically that one must NEVER have the Flop! disk inside the Flop! drive while moving? >> Does it really state that? If this is true then CLIK! has absolutely no chance whatsoever... No chance in PDAs, cell phones, whatever...(Not that they would include a device that would triple the factory cost, but it sure hammers the last nail in..) Funny, if Rocky wasn't on this thread, no one here would ever know this... I just cannot believe that any investor would want to stay this uninformed.. Amazing!!! kp PS: could some bull verify this?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (7599)	2/22/1999 7:24:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Lucy and Ken <<<<2)Never transport the Clik! disk in the Clik! drive.>> Rocky states <<Is this why the Iomega Flop! Owner's Manual states emphatically that one must NEVER have the Flop! disk inside the Flop! drive while moving?>> What a pile of crock. It says nothing about moving. Ken states <<Does it really state that? If this is true then CLIK! has absolutely no chance whatsoever...>> There you have it. One the basis of two witnesses an issue is settled. They both agree the Elephant is actually a tree. All drive manufacturers state that you should not keep a disk in the drive when the drive is nonoperational. Nevertheless, many Americans keep their disks in their drive while they are non-operational. The probability of a disk being damaged outside the drive is SIGNIFICANTLY greater than the probability of a disk being damaged while in the drive. Elements to protect the disk are in place in the drive, no such elements to protect a disk exist outside the drive. Nevertheless, this has been standard terminology on ALL removable drive products of which I'm aware. It limits the companies liability. They are not going to suggest that you ALWAYS leave the disk in the drive as it increases their liability, albeit ever so slight. You show me ONE clik! drive and/or disk damaged now or ever as a result of leaving a disk in the drive and I'll show you a the POPE doing mass clad only in bermuda shorts. Both are probable, but both are highly unlikely.