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To: Gottfried who wrote (9450)	4/27/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: Naggrachi	Respond to of 10072

If those exec's., had an ounce of common sense, they would've stuck to the original plan, including Zip across the board. Nope, not those highly paid, supposedly talented senior personnel. It was better for them to plunk down a couple of hundred million dollars in research to try to come up with a similar drive in a crowded market and try to play Ketchup er...catch up. Zead

To: Gottfried who wrote (9450)	4/27/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>>HiFD was DOA, it's too late now.<< I agree. The market for removable magnetic disk drives is just too low-margin to deal with. I just bought a 10-Gig 7200rpm UDMA Maxtor Hard Drive for $149 (I'm building my own Wintel PC). Also today, we just bought another 100-count blank 650MB CD-R disks for about $0.49 apiece. We go through these CD-R disks like water. We have literally several hundreds of Gigs worth of data archived to CD-R (brimming full an entire file cabinet) for dirt cheap cost. How can Iomega compete with this? It used to be that one of Zip's functions was to make room on full hard drives. That time is long gone. -Just buy another 10 Gig hard drive for $149, or 10 Gigs worth of ORB disks for $150. Just buy dirt cheap and easy to use CD-R/W. There is a reason why CD Burners and CD-R media are flying off the shelves. Sony should just announce they are leaving the magnetic disk segment altogether. Maybe they are...after all, Sony is about to push hard its DVD+RW technology, and they have been favoring DVD+RW over HiFD for some time now at the trade shows.