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Technology Stocks : Ampex Corporation (AEXCA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Cassaro who wrote (9023)	6/6/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Thomas Kirwin	Respond to of 17679

Quote of the Week "I think we're in the second inning of what's going to be the greatest creation of wealth of this century. In the next five or six years, you're going to see the creation of $2 trillion of new wealth. [So far,] you've only actually seen 15% of a number that's going to be extraordinary." -- Comments made this week by Alberto Vilar, lead manager of the Amerindo Technology Fund, to SmartMoney.com regarding the recent correction in Net stocks.

To: Alan Cassaro who wrote (9023)	6/7/1999 8:45:00 AM
From: Scott Pedigo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Anyone think we ought to ask if there's a rat's chance that keepering is still an option, somewhere along the line? No. If you can buy a cheap 100 GB drive for your PC soon using the existing gigantic resistive heads technology, and the manufacturers don't need keepering yet, and the near-term future increases in capacity will most likely be coming from hybrid optical disks, and in the long term we'll probably be seeing some kind of holographic atomic level storage in crystal lattices, I don't see any reason for ever hoping to milk that old cow. And if by some quirk of fate keepering ever is used for something, it certainly won't be the case that it is a critical technology for which every manufacturer will have to pay license fees or fall by the wayside. There is all kinds of research going on and there will be alternatives, not only in magnetic storage but in other kinds as well (optical). So even if it is used, Ampex probably won't be able to squeeze the licensees for any significant amount of money. This will never make us rich, and the big hype years ago was just that. KM = keep moaning (what AXC shareholders do) = kein Markt (German for "no market) = Karl Marx (another bankrupt philosophy) = killed movement (of stock price) Anybody else? Let's let Ed and Co. concentrate on the "new" Ampex. I know you were just making a joke, Al, but the KM topic is so worn out that it's hard to even milk it for laughs anymore.