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Technology Stocks : Quintek Technologies, QTEK data archival etc.. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KZAP who wrote (16)	7/6/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Micropicker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 406

Aperture Cards - The future or the past? No one is going to argue with the concept that you can't depend on reading old computer data--and that readable images may be the only thing you can use 100 years from now. I'm not going to argue that QTEK has an ideal way to get the data it is going to archive, and I think QTEK has a far superior way to create aperture cards. I'm on the fence here, and the argument I'm facing is whether aperture cards themselves are on the way out. I've seen a DOD memo instructing at least some part of DOD to discontinue the use of aperture cards last year. I've seen lots of companies that make aperture card readers, and lots of those companies are willing to convert your "old" aperture card data to on-line information in other formats. I have no doubt that QTEK is a unique and powerful new force in aperture cards, but can someone convince me that aperture cards will still be around next year?