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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (8016)	3/6/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10072

>>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 goes right along with Syed Iftikar's strategy--actually replacing the HARD DRIVE in a computer with an ORB Drive...this way, you can have hard drive performance (or even better) and be able to swap out drives with ease. You can have different bootable OS's on each ORB disk..Windows2000 on one, Linux on another, etc. Syed has already lined up Asian computer-maker ProView to replace internal hard drives with ORBS. Iomega and Zip turned out to be unsuccesful in their goal of floppy replacement. Instead, the vestigial internal floppy is being dropped out of the box...with NOTHING but a modem and ethernet as its replacement. The brilliantly designed and executed iMac has shown the way. ...and Imation Superdisk stands to gain ENORMOUS benefit from all this. $149 USB Superdisk...the 5th best-selling product overall at Mac retail outlets... Expect the same success rate with PC Boxes with no floppy. USB Zip nowhere in sight on the sales charts. Zip has no chance of being included inside W2000 boxes.

To: BubbaFred who wrote (8016)	3/7/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

BF - The "Concept PC 2000" is the device to which that poster refers. It is not intended to be the only type of PC any user can buy. It's intended as an example of a simplified PC, like the Imac is a simplified Macintosh. Here's a link to a story about the machine in question: zdnet.com and a picture of the thing: zdnet.com I think the poster is confused by the fact that Microsoft and Intel have produced specifications in each of the past few years for the PC98, the PC99, etc. These are basically suggestions to PC makers for what features a computer must have to be considered "up to date" and to support the latest software and peripherals. Here's a link to a story about PC99: zdnet.com This story was published in November, and it says that the PC99 spec was at the 0.9 revision at that time, which means it wasn't yet finalized. The final PC99 spec is not due on Intel and Microsoft's web sites until July 20, 1999. The PC2000 spec will be released late this year. That Concept PC 2000 is just that, a concept. Oh, and by the way, if you could actually buy a Concept PC 2000, you would be able to use your USB Zip and FireWire Jaz with it. - Allen