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To: HRP who wrote (8109)	3/9/1999 9:28:00 PM
From: Mel Boreham	Respond to of 10072

News about NEC Clik! Production and forthcoming sales of these new thinner versions in May, 1999!!! Reposted from TMF site, Mel Repost follows: Subject: Still Not News? (NEC Clik!) Date: 3/9/99 8:11 PM Author: NovW Number: of 18747 Thanks to DMccoy4428, the IOM analyst for First Montauk Securites, for posting the following on the AOL IOM Fool Board: << (COMTEX) B: NEC to Roll out Click! Mini Memory Drives in May B: NEC to Roll out Click! Mini Memory Drives in May Mar 09, 1999, (Comline via COMTEX) -- In March, NEC (6701) will commence mass production of its Click! memory modules for PDAs and other small portable devices such as cameras. Sales will begin in May. The USB-compatible Click! is available in three models 5-, 6.5- and 10-mm thick. ....... >> Obviously, Iomega doesn't consider this to be news .... well, Iomega announced the plan for NEC to produce USB Clik! a while back ... so it is not news to Iomega... and it is not a news release from Iomega either ....... However, it is very impressive just to read: IN MARCH, NEC WILL COMMENCE MASS PRODUCTION OF ITS CLIK! ........ IN MARCH ...MASS PRODUCTION .... IN MARCH ..... MASS PRODUCTION .... But, NO, it is not news .... ..... And SALES WILL BEGIN IN MAY .... Wow ... But Iomega doesn't have control over that, and Iomega doesn't say that either ... it must not be considered Iomega news .... Now, about those 5-, 6.5- and 10-mm thicknesses ... what do they have to do with USB or NEC? I thought NEC was going to do USB Clik! only .... that 5mm Clik! seems to be PCMCIA TYPE II OEM Clik! drive .... Whatever ...it must not be news ....at least not Iomega's news .... Just a lay stockholder's humble opinions and questions. As "usaul", I may be wrong. NovW

To: HRP who wrote (8109)	3/9/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Mel Boreham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

More on NEC Clik! developments! From TMF Iomega Board, Mel Repost follows: Subject: Re: Still Not News? (NEC Clik!) Date: 3/9/99 8:28 PM Author: NovW Number: of 18747 More of that March 9, 1999 Comline via COMTEX news release, which shouldn't be considered current "Iomega news": << .... It holds 40 MB in a disk less than 2-mm thick and 50-mm across. The disk was developed by the Utah firm Iomega, which began offering its own 10-mm drive last December for $199. Initially, NEC Tochigi, a wholly owned subsidiary, will produce the new drives, but production may be shifted overseas if the market expands. Matsushita and Citizen have also purchased licenses from Iomega. .... >> I think for some unknown reasons, Iomega doesn't want to issue any of its own positive news releases now ....or there is simply no news in Iomega's view .... "The disk was developed by the Utah firm Iomega, which began offering its own 10-mm drive last December for $199.": So the current external Mobile Clik! drives from Iomega are based on 10mm drives ..... and NEC can trim them down to 6.5mm and eventually 5mm besides doing the USB interface? I thought only Citizen is doing the trimming .... Just a lay stockholder's humble opinions and questions. As "usaul", I may be wrong. NovW