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To: Naggrachi who wrote (7919)	3/3/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: Daniel Simon	Respond to of 10072

I thought the whole idea was to make money on the disks? If so why not concentrate on uses of zip/jaz/clik etc? Instead of all this infernal talk of standards, sku's, orbs and superdrives? @ 20 million+ drives Zip has critical mass (why even argue this?) Zip/Jaz is not for every computer and should not be in every computer. IOM would do much better (in fact I think it did) selling its drives to the 20% of users that create 80% of the data... In this sense clik is perfect b/c it is new market with potential to sell to users w/ and w/o zip/jaz without canabalizing sales... New technology that is obviously superior/substantially cheeper could destroy IOM (it could also destroy INTC, CSCO, or MSFT) that is always a risk. So far I don't think we have seen it. In fact there is precious little in the line of ordinary competition out there. I am interested in what s. b. has to say about strong jaz sales. Is this the start of Y2K bug fix, called save your a$$ back it up?

To: Naggrachi who wrote (7919)	3/4/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: David S.	Respond to of 10072

Naggrachi, continuing the Zip evolution argument: Yes the upgrade cycle will tend to go from Zip external to Zip built in on next machine, which is what I did myself by buying an Atapi Zip on line for $42 bucks and adding it to the new 450 PII machine (which I am using now). Nonetheless, if I sell this machine or it becomes obsolete, I can remove and transfer the Zip built in to another machine rather than buy a new one. In otherwords, those thoughts reflect the fact that we are near a Zip standard, but don't have one. Otherwise, I would expect any new machine to have Zip built in and would not consider removing the current one. Regards, David S.