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Peripherals Galore (7/15/98)
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Your friendly neighborhood AtAT staff saw some neat iMac-compatible storage devices at the Expo last week. First, there's the one that everyone's been hearing about-- Imation's SuperDisk drive, which reads and writes its own 120 MB disks, as well as standard 3.5" floppies. The really cool thing about the drive is that it's seriously made for the iMac-- it's bondi blue and ice white, translucent, rounded, and a perfect stylistic complement. Then there was Iomega's USB Zip drive, which is a deep translucent royal blue instead of the solid navy we're used to. And Syquest's 1 GB SparQ for iMac was a bright translucent red. Pretty! (And, presumably, functional.)
While those options are all well and good, MacWEEK's got an article describing even more. For instance, La Cie will be selling external hard drives and DVD-ROM drives that will connect to the iMac's USB port. But the storage option that intrigued us the most was a service called BackJack, which lets Mac users back up their critical files over the Internet, which is the only backup option available to iMac users who don't want to purchase additional hardware. We had also heard that Dantz is planning a special version of its excellent Retrospect backup software that will allow backup to special servers via the Internet.
There's something to be said for such a service; while it's always a good idea for computer users to back up their entire hard disks, many people are content with backing up only their document files, figuring that they can always reload the operating system and all their applications from the original CD-ROMs. Since people using iMacs most likely aren't working on 100 MB graphics files, an option to let them back up their Quicken and AppleWorks files over the Internet sounds like a neat idea. It even has the added benefit of being an offsite backup; even if your house burns down, those critical files are safe on a server three states away. But we don't know how safe we'd feel storing personal and confidential data on an Internet server. There's always the security/paranoia factor, and backups are supposed to make you feel safer. It'll be interesting to see if such services catch on.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/15/98 episode: July 15, 1998: Apple's done it again, as it pulls off a hat trick and beats Wall Street's quarterly financial estimates for the third time in a row. Meanwhile, backup and storage options for the iMac continue to grow, and it was only a matter of time before someone cloned the eMate...
Other scenes from that episode: 856: Pinch Us, We're Dreaming (7/15/98) Well, there's no question as to what the big news is today: Apple stunned Wall Street, the mainstream media, the naysayers, and even the Mac faithful by posting a $101 million profit for Q3 1998. That makes this the third consecutive quarter in which Apple not only posted a profit, but also exceeded the analysts' expectations... 858: Copycat, Copycat (7/15/98) It's no big secret that Apple's innovations are frequently adopted (or, say, "ripped off") by other companies over time until eventually the appropriated element becomes a standard. Apple introduces the QuickTake, the first consumer-level digital camera, and now there are dozens of the things on the market...
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