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To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (8290)	3/15/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Respond to of 10072

read the information on Orb like you were going to spec for use in the servers you claim to work on

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (8290)	3/15/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Craig Richards	Respond to of 10072

Ken, - LS-120 'winner' in APPLE market How'd you figure this? Also, you forgot to add: QUESTIONS - Does Iomega have an Orb-killer waiting in the wings, ready to release as soon as the Orb starts to ship in quantity? (Remember when the Zip 250 was released right around the time of the Sony announcement?) - CLIK! (in it's current form) will make barely a dent What does this mean? No impact on Iomega profitability, or it won't gain acceptance as a digital picture storage media? In either case, what do you base this conclusion on? Regards, Craig

To: Ken Pomaranski who wrote (8290)	3/16/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

>>FACTS: - ORB is shipping - ORB is cheap - ORB is fast - ORB has lowest cost / Mbyte (by far...) - ORB is current technology (years ahead of JAZ)<< Ken - Just getting back from my business trip. Thought I'd chime in a response to this. FACT: Orb is shipping in very limited quantities. Try finding one in stock at any online dealer. Now try finding one actually on store shelves. I didn't see any at the two Fry's stores I checked in Southern California. As I said in another post, yes, Orb's technology is ahead of Jaz. That stands to reason, doesn't it? After all, Jaz was developed years ago, and Orb is only now making it to market. What reason is there to believe that Iomega has not been developing higher technology products all this time? Oh, and I believe the Write Verify issue is more than a red herring. Since reliability is still an open question with Orb, that recommendation in their manual, which is not standard in this industry, is a red flag. Hey, if you choose to believe that Castlewood can make a faster, cheaper removable device and sell it profitably, and that Iomega for some reason can't, that's fine. By the way, where's that Sony Zip killer, anyway? - Allen