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To: John Solder who wrote (6967)	8/4/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18366

Regarding the price of CD's: I was in a well-known record/CD chain-store recently to pick up a CD I had called about on the phone. I was told it was "on sale" for $14.99. When I got there, I was told the CD was $18.99. The salesgirl, said, "Oh, okay" when I mentioned the phone conversation. She was then interrupted and I had to wait to have the sale rung up. In the meantime, another girl came over and asked if she could help me. I said I was buying a certain CD. She said, "That will be $18.99" and I told her about the "on sale" price I'd been quoted. She then said "Okay" and I paid $14.99. The same CD on Amazon.com was $11.99, but I figured with postage, it would come to as much as the in-store price. I hadn't figured on having to "bargain" for the price quoted me. From now on, I'll buy on-line. I suspect I'm not the only person who feels this way.

To: John Solder who wrote (6967)	8/4/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Tinroad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

John, perhaps I generalized a bit too much. You suggested that a $10 Clik disk might be a more viable alternative to (currently) expensive compact flash memory. The point I feel you may be overlooking is that the inherent disadvantages of rotating magnetic media (physical size of drive and power budget, susceptibility to vibration, and data degradation due to environmental factors i.e. magnetic fields, heat, etc.) make them unsuitable for hand-held devices. If Iomega or others come up with a robust high-density storage device that's no bigger than a matchbook and immune to the environment that portable devices are exposed to, they may have a shot at the hand-held market. Otherwise, they will be left behind and SNDK et al will cash in.