Zip disks here are under $10 apiece but price per meg is high compared to
discs holding gigs. Did that make sense?
John
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From: Tomoko Yamamoto <tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:36 PM
Subject: [OM] Olympus America and Olympus Japan
> Olympians (rather than Zuikoholics)!
>
> I had a glance at the Olympus Japan site in Japanese and I found something
I had
> missed before. Olympus Sales Company has just opened a digital service
shop
> next to the Olympus Plaza which is a showroom of the Olympus products and
where
> the Tokyo Service Center is located.
>
> The new digital service shop includes large print services using the
customer's
> digital files, rental of Olympus digital equipment (one week rental), and
> digital printers available for use by customers at the shop.
>
> I recall Gary Schloss's post on his difficulty in getting a rental unit
from the
> Olympus America's service center in California.
>
> Olympus America's site shows the C-2500 included as a new product. The
C-2500
> has not been announced by Olympus Japan. While Olympus America is touting
the
> Stylus Epic Zoom 80 CF (with a visual finder to indicate that a picture
has been
> taken) as an 80th anniversary commemorative model. Olympus Japan has not
done
> so.
>
> Olympus Japan is touting three 3.5" portable MO drives: 230MB, 640MB and
1.3GB.
> The Olympus America site is only listing the 230MB MO. If Olympus America
did a
> good job of marketing the MO's, it would have competed with the Zip
drives.
> With more people buying the digital cameras, they would need removable
drives to
> store their images. While Zip drives are cheap, the Zip disks are not.
The
> opposite is true with the MO drives. Short-sighted consumers buy Zip
drives and
> end up spending a lot of money buying the disks (myself included).
>
> Tomoko Yamamoto
> mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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