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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (6049)	6/18/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Here's one possible application: A small desk top computer with flat panel display, giving a footprint that would take up less than half the space of a typical unit with 15-inch screen and large size keyboard. Flat panel displays cost about three or four times as much as ordinary monitors, so to keep the price down and the footprint small, you include the Microdrive in place of a regular disk drive, and you offer external HD and CD-ROM as accessories. This is a different market from the laptop, which typically has a smaller screen with a bit less detail than a desktop monitor. It would be more like a laptop without battery, but with better quality display. Gee, now that I think of it, I'll bet IBM could sell about 50,000 Microdrives in this application. Can't think of any other application, though.