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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Greif who wrote (7060)	9/24/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

Jim and Thread, Earlier in the week I ordered some CF cards from an internet site. I ordered four 8 MB cards for about $30 each, which I thought was a reasonable deal. I like having the option of dedicating each card to a specific function such as trip maps, a language dictionary, a drug compendium, backup disk for my palmtop, etc... This is easier than having a single large card and backing up everything on my PC, as I wish to use the larger capacity cards for photography and mp3 files. 8MB and 16MB cards are convenient in this respect and the price is not too bad. I would like to know about consumer habits in this regard. I visited one site where a guy posted that he owned 15 CompactFlash cards for various uses in various devices. Although this seems extreme, I think that the lower density cards are reaching a price point where they become "collectible". That is, people collect a new card for a specific, unique application and add to this collection as their needs expand. I understand that this is not as economical as buying floppies or zip discs, but neither of these fit into my portable electronic devices either. I hope that SanDisk can exploit this aspect of consumer behavior. I can foresee corporations personalizing CF cards with a company logo and then sending them out to interested employees or clients with various information such as product catalogs (along with product photos) or other items. Palm computing will fuel this demand. Eventually MMC or SD may be cheap enough to sell at a nominal price as a carrier for proprietary content such as GPS maps or even "music CD's". These are referred to as "ROS cards" (Recorded On Silicon) and are sold by Siemens. Maybe even your local Bell will give you a single card for downloading your yellow pages every year (although you phone may actually have "always on" internet access with an LCD screen in a few years). Collectibility. Give that concept some thought. Ausdauer