Sorry, I kind of rambled there toward the end. My point was, Iomega had products most everyone in the industry wanted for one use or another. All they had to do was make them quality and the world would have beaten a path to their door. Instead class action lawsuits, bad taste in the public mouth, and the loss of, I assume, a very lucrative contract to put a Zip floppy in almost every Mac saw their stock plummet and a buyout occur.
EdB On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Ed Booher <edboo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Iomega had gold on their hands, but their quality control was absolutely > horrific. The "click of death" would have been easily avoided by just a > little QA on the backend. *Everyone* wanted a Zip back in the day. It is > actually my firm belief that the click of death warranty repairs to Macs is > what caused Jobs to demand an end to *all* floppy based media back in the > day. The entire industry flipped its collective wig when the first iMac was > unveiled with *no* floppy. USB thumb drives were not as readily available > at this time either, though this helped to build that industry too. > CD/DVD's were "good enough" and for everything else there was the network, > since the i in iMac stood for Internet, and as such meant the system was > designed around being networked. > > I once sold upper management on a plan to use the Iomega Jaz drives in > support systems. We had contracts with communications providers dealing > with the "Big Three" and their supply chains. The original plan was to have > several systems to use for troubleshooting. Kind of odd that even then most > people were using a form of Windows as their "Enterprise OS" but our > primary systems were UltraSparc Suns. So instead of having several > computers we had a single x86 system with a Jaz and "hard floppies" we > could use to boot DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 > Workstation, NT Server, Linux, BSD and early x86 Solaris. So we could "see" > what the customer was seeing to walk them through menu choices and control > panels over the phone. Then the ticketing and other "day to day" work was > done in Solaris on Sparc. > > EdB > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > > wrote: > >> We had billions of the external SCSI Zip drives when I worked in the >> schools. Nearly all died from the dreaded "click of death" that affected >> certain models. >> >> I can remember hauling hundreds of them out to the scrap dumpster by the >> cables... >> >> -D >> >> > On Jun 6, 2017, at 9:22 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have an external drive and some disks around somewhere in a box, i >> think it has a parallel cable? >> > >> > --FT >> > >> > >> >> On 6/5/17 11:08 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: >> >> Yep, I am moving a bunch and keep planning someday to put a zip drive >> in an old computer.... >> >> >> >> I have 6 or 8 brand new disks, still in the wrapper/ >> >>> Mountain Man via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> >>> June 5, 2017 at 9:38 PM >> >>> Anyone remember these? >> >>> Found these here. Zip 100mb media - no drive. >> >>> Anyone? >> >>> mao >> >>> >> >>> ________ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > --FT >> > Winston Churchill: >> > “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, >> large or petty, >> > never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. >> > Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might >> of the enemy.” >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________ >> > http://www.okiebenz.com >> > >> > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> > >> > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > -- > "Das beste oder nichts." - *Gottlieb Daimler* > -- "Das beste oder nichts." - *Gottlieb Daimler* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
