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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (8006)	3/6/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Does this mean IOM is trying to catch up to Orbs? messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com Reprint of message: You are correct about JazII being more attractive to the commercial market. The cost of both the drive and media are too expensive for the consumer market. I was informed that the production of JazII was terminated last June. There has been a program to rebuild all of the returned units. Production of the new single disk 2GB unit has started. My contact in Milpitas is current working on getting the production testing operational. All engineering effort is being placed on this program. When these drives hit the market the current Jaz products will fade into history. These drives are lower cosr and out perfom the current units. I have been communicating with this group about the USB version of the new drive. I hope they have a FireWire version in the schedule but I have not been answered about this. Iomega needs to sell as many of the remaining Jaz drives as they can before the new product is announced. Otherwise they will just sit on the shelf forever. That is why production of new units was terminated. Col. S. Colt

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (8006)	3/6/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: BubbaFred	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Rocky - Looks like Zip and Jaz will be antiques in 9 months. That's what you have been saying, isn't it? messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com Message is copied below: The industy is looking at eliminating the floppy from the PC. But it will not be replaced with either Zip, SuperDisk, HiFD, or anything else. It will be elimiated as an element in the BOX. The only removable media device will be either a CD or DVD device. The industy specification for this is called PC2000. It is being pushed by Microsoft and Intel. It will turn the PC into an WinTel version of iMac. They plan to depend on USB. There will be no drive bays available for internal versions of any storage devices. This will elimate the OEM market for companies like Iomega. The consumer will have to select his choice from the offering at the retail stores such as CompUSA. This specification has been circulating through the industy since last year. You can find articles about it in the electonic industy trade journals. Sorry to let air out of your theory about the OEMs puting Zip in their boxes as a replacment for the 1.44MB floppy. Col. S. Colt