Re: [ProgSoc] $0.02

[Christian Kent <ckent@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Matt wrote:

> > This is something to keep an eye on.  I wonder if the Zip has enough
> > momentum to go beyond Iomega now.  Do you have a web page where the
> > latest situation on Iomega is explained?
> any good finacial page on the web should give you all te public
> details (try cnnfi for example, you can get to it through cnn.com).

Yup;  CEOs quitting and inventory problems, etc ... some generally shoddy
business practice which is a shame seeing how they started so well.  I
hope they fix their technical issues.

> > BTW, to the person who said Zips are slow:  You're not still using the
> > parallel version, are you?
> ack, dont use the parallel version, get the internal ATAPI version,

Ack, I bought a SCSI version in 1995.  The Zip Zoom card was a bargain
$100 but it just sits in my old PC now  :)

> >> p.s. can people put a "--" as the first line of their signature?
> > Email is ASCII.  Cope with it.
> doof, the '--' is there because it is part of the RFC's (822 or 823 i
> cant remember which one). iut has nothing to do with ascii and
> everything to do with delimiting your signature or other automagically

I know, I don't care  :)
My emails are going to be on a baseline of ASCII, and if your email spews
because I'm not typing '--' then that's yer problem.

> if you wish to ignore standards you start walking down the dark path.

Ooh scary.  <g>

CK.

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Of course you won't even recognise this bit so why am I typing here?

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