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To: HardMoney who wrote (8233)	3/14/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Great post hardmoney...and have all seen the nice ads in the sunday paper from office depot i believe for the "1 week special" of zip parallel dirves for 79.95... and the 129.95 usb zip? these next 3 weeks are going to be huge in product movement!!!

To: HardMoney who wrote (8233)	3/14/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: s. bateh	Respond to of 10072

Resellers/channel have known about the 99 zip for a couple of months according to the article....listen for the giant sucking sound of tons of high margin product leaving the distributors!!! good luck all...see you next week

To: HardMoney who wrote (8233)	3/15/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: Ken Pomaranski	Respond to of 10072

Your vision in post 8233 is correct, but you make the false conclusion that Iomega will be the chief benefactor of these trends. You said: << Growth of storage needs will be substantial I believe, because of: Year 2000 More ?Mobile? Economy Increase In databases and database sizes Explosion in Internet downloads. ?..and much more?.. >> Let me comment. The vision of the future (especially in business) is the CENTRALIZATION of storage. Desktop boxes will keep getting cheaper and lower functioned (except for speed of course). It is much easier to manage and maintain availability of data with this architecture. This is a well known and demonstrated fact. Can you imagine a large business storing their mission critical data on hundreds of ZIPS? Please! If you believe that, then you have no clue about this market. Go back and invest in Home Depot. Otherwise, invest in EMC! They will benefit profusely... For home use, a similar model will develop. Primary storage will be the large hard drive (9Gbytes by 2000) for higher end PCs, but at the ISP for ultra low-end internet appliances. With respect to mobile computing, CLIK! doesn't cut it. Sorry, but this is true. Too fragile, difficult OEM model, slow write speed, and the power solution is way too cumbersome. kp