Post by thread:Iomega Click! drive again

I forgot to say. The suggested price is only US$ 9.95. Octavio ====================================================== Octavio Nogueira - e-mail: spam_OUTnogueiraTakeThisOuTmandic.com.br http://www.geocities.com/~oct_nogueira "ProPic" Production PIC Programmer Windows under US$20 ======================================================

Octavio Nogueira wrote: > > I forgot to say. The suggested price is only US$ 9.95. > > Octavio Actually, if you read a bit further: "The mobile clik! drive will have a suggested retail price under $200 (U.S.) at retail and the clik! 40MB disks will have a suggested retail price of $9.95 (U.S.). Consistent with all of our products, Iomega does not disclose pricing to OEMs. However, we anticipate the OEM drive will cost less than $100 (U.S.). " -- --------------------------------------- Anton Coetzee Anton.CoetzeeKILLspamvip.co.za FibreFlight Composites ---------------------------------------

hmm, should I call one of the several engineers that I know that work there? or just take a drive....Iomega is about a 45 minute drive for me..... Be nice to get some info on this, had a newspaper article on them in the Sunday paper. I would think that COMDEX would be where they would have beta versions to look at {Quote hidden}> ---------- > From: Octavio Nogueira[SMTP:.....nogueiraKILLspam.....MANDIC.COM.BR] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 1997 2:44 AM > To: EraseMEPICLISTspam_OUTTakeThisOuTMITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Iomega Click! drive again > > I forgot to say. The suggested price is only US$ 9.95. > > Octavio > ====================================================== > Octavio Nogueira - e-mail: nogueiraspam_OUTmandic.com.br > http://www.geocities.com/~oct_nogueira > "ProPic" Production PIC Programmer Windows under US$20 > ====================================================== >

>..or just take a drive....Iomega is about a 45 minute drive for >me..... Yes, the parallel port Zip drive is about that slow for me too :-) And it does make a loud series of "clicks" once in a while. :-)) -bob Seriously though, could Iomega really expect to make any money on something only 40 MB? http://www.bobblick.com/

Bob Blick wrote: > > Seriously though, could Iomega really expect to make any money on something > only 40 MB? ...by staying away from notebook applications and penetrating the embedded market. If I can add 40Mb of storage for $9.95 in a $100 project, I'll have a winner. Serial comms makes for real easy interfacing too. Just think how many more pics (sic) you could have taken at the ESC... ;) -- Friendly Regards Tjaart van der Walt @spam@tjaartKILLspamwasp.co.za _____________________________________________________________ | WASP International http://www.wasp.co.za/~tjaart/index.html | | R&D Engineer : GSM peripheral services development | | Vehicle tracking | Telemetry systems | GSM data transfer | | Voice : +27-(0)11-622-8686 | Fax : +27-(0)11-622-8973 | | WGS-84 : 26010.52'S 28006.19'E | |_____________________________________________________________|

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Bob Blick wrote: > Seriously though, could Iomega really expect to make any money on something > only 40 MB? PTM: I think yes. Until FLASH will be cheap enough. They made it with Bernoulli box portables, Zip drive and Jazz. They threw to us technology and prises that were just an inch at the right side. For example this Zip was a bit slow, a bit small and a bit high prized, but it had no competitors, when you wanted to take your XX MB pictures or your ACAD environment with you or make a fast backup of a falling system in the woods. Yes, I see the future for this kind of product. Alltough it will not be a very long future. And altough I hate moving hi-tech parts in my pack of tools (if you can't also use it as a hammer or anvil, it is useles:) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PTM, KILLspampasi.mustalahtiKILLspamutu.fi, RemoveMEptmustaTakeThisOuTutu.fi, http://www.utu.fi/~ptmusta Lab.ins. (mikrotuki) ATK-keskus/Mat.Luon.Tdk OH1HEK Lab.engineer (PC support) Computer Center OI7234 Mail: Turun Yliopisto / Fysla, Vesilinnantie 5, 20014 Pt 02-3336669, FAX 02-3335632 (Pk 02-2387010, NMT 049-555577) --------------------------------------------------------------------------

>> Seriously though, could Iomega really expect to make any money on something >> only 40 MB? I missed the start of this thread, but I really think they could make a good chunk real quick. I'm surprised some of the guys on this list didn't think of it sooner, actually. Anybody have a link for a datasheet on the drive? Andy ================================================================== Andy Kunz - Montana Design - 409 S 6th St - Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 Hardware & Software for Industry & R/C Hobbies "Go fast, turn right, and keep the wet side down!" ==================================================================

> Aren't there a whole bunch of "super-floppies" on the near-term horizon? > I thought most of them were abut 20MB... The IOmega ZIP drive, which some vendors are shipping instead of a floppy, is 100MB. The LS-120's, which are 120MB's, can read and write standard floppies as well as their own (fairly inexpensive) media. ZIP's are magneticly formatted at the factory, if you accidently wipe one with a magnet you not only lose your data but it is very likely you will wipe the formatting and make the disk unusable. LS-120's, while magnetic, are opticly formatted at the factory, rather difficult to write. In addition LS-120's, which connect to the IDE chain, are almost an order of magnitude faster than a parrallel ZIP, and about twice as fast as a SCSI ZIP. Roger Remember, the best product doesn't always win.

William Chops Westfield wrote: > Aren't there a whole bunch of "super-floppies" on the near-term > horizon? > I thought most of them were abut 20MB... > > BillW You blinked Bill, that was ~5 years ago, the flopticals and some other look-alikes were 10-20Mb, but they were not quite enough capacity for the $ and never quite cought on. The Zip has several competitors (the LS120 is one) that have better specs (faster, bit more capacity, 1.44 compatibility) but I think they are all too late. With 9 million Zips shipped I doubt that any of the others will catch up - I can go pick up a Zip at Costco - I'd have to do a search to find out where to get an LS120. Sort of a Beta/VHS situation. I suspect that all of the Zip competitors together have only shipped a million or so. The LS120 1.44 floppy compatibility is nice, but not an overwhelming feature in the long term. They used to make 5"/3" combination floppy drives, but now there's no 5", no combos. (a few months ago I threw out a 20 gallon trash bag full of 5" disks) The Click is aimed at cameras and palmtops, and will hit it big unless there is a dramatic decrease in the cost of flash (it could happen). GC

I looked at the specs on IOMEGA's site, and I don't think it will fly... 1) It's not much smaller than PCMCIA, by the time you include the drive 2) Looks like the intent is to build some drive into your camera/whatever, and put a second drive on your PC. So you need this $200 drive on your PC just to read clickdisks (I think we all agree that 40M isn't much use on the PC for anything else?) 3) so you have this collection of images on 40M clickdisks, I guess you could read them back into the camera/display and that would have some value. 4Mbps IRDA ought to blow away the data-transfer to PC application. BillW