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To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (9727)	5/9/1999 4:29:00 AM
From: robert read	Respond to of 10072

not invested in iomega anymore but i went to fry's today and i sensed that zip business is good. atapi zip 250 drives gone, zip disks moving smartly, though i heard a couple of customers conplain about their price and singles not being available. I think iomega would be making lots of money off the zip if they had made the right moves. They should have gotten rid of jaz, ditto, clik! long time ago(money losers, remember analyst recomending getting rid of jaz last year). They should not have over expanded, and spended. They should have let anybody manufacture the zip drive to oems to make it standard in all computers and concentrate on disks revenues. IMHO.

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (9727)	5/9/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: s. bateh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Philip, ALL: Nothing but zip in cpq, hp, ibm etc this weekend. Look at the latest dell small business catalog...all zip, zip250, jaz, zip in laptops etc. etc. etc......it is now the standard plain and simple...now to start making money!!! and that we will with zip250, disks and yes clik!! notice the full page cpq add for free zip with cpq purchase and the 4 page ibm add with zip as only storage option in wsj.....

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (9727)	5/9/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Thank you Philip for posting that link to Deja.com. Below is an interesting response to the single complaint you posted. It seems the only problem encountered with Orb is from that one ugeek.com post. Now every attempt by Iomaniacs to bash Orb points to that one post. However, if you read all of the reponses, praise after praise is heaped upon Orb by Orb owners and people who want to buy an Orb and avoid "crappy" Iomega drives. x25.deja.com[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=475748355&CONTEXT=926266334.740098087&hitnum=4 >> Thread: Castlewood Orb Drive >> Message 5 of 113 Subject: Re: Castlewood Orb Drive Date: 1999/05/08 Author: Stevie Stevie <nospamsw88@juno.com> Posting History Yes, the ORB drive looks like a winner, fast, cheap, and reliable, with new technology. I hope the ORB will dethrone the crappy, overpriced, and unreliable Iomega drives. If Castlewood Systems succeeds in dethroning Iomega, then the price of the ORB may rise, but at least we'll be getting a much better product as the market standard. Nothings pisses me off more than seeing inferior products being market leaders: Iomega, Microsoft, and the PC standard, for example....