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To: Rob Palmer who wrote (12668)	12/1/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: DrD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Rob, I have always felt since the early km days, that km was not completely "done for", (too much potential for that to occur). However, I was completely surprised with the application of km on a device with form factor of a credit card. Also, I am very pleased with Ed Bramson, colleagues, and staff with their handling (managing) of the launching of the various sites. As I have said before, when one is on the cutting edge of technology, one cannot always predict with certainty all outcomes or their nuances. Therefore, deviations in timetables, launches, and strategies should be expected. I would much rather have the launch when everything has been optimized, and functioning well, rather than launch to meet a particular date, even if that date was pre-announced. BTW, In Milt's post# 12646, there is an article discussing the new memory intensive Ultra card. The article was dated in August, 1999. While, the more recent PR indicated the the new card would hold 5mb, the excerpt from the article shown below, talks about 1 Gigabyte capability. QUESTION: Given that the older article indicates a 1 Gig capabilty, could it be that, km has stealthily contributed to that 1 gig capability, and the announcement yesterday of 5Mb is only the tip of the iceberg of capability? DrD <<.....Regular cards can carry only a few hundred characters on their backs, enough solely for your name and account number. Even so-called SmartCards, with the little chips built in, can hold only about a page of text ? 0.002Mb to be exact ? barely enough for your address and billing details.... "Normal cards are Sixties technology and SmartCards are Eighties technology. UltraCard is 21st century technology." says Katsanos. Developed by Upgrade International, and distributed in Europe solely by Global Cybersystems, UltraCard can hold a minimum of 5Mb on a magnetic strip on the back, enough for the contents of the average novel, and Katsanos says that their prototypes can now hold 200 times that amount ? one gigabyte ? on the back of a card. That would be enough to hold a full-length feature film...>>

To: Rob Palmer who wrote (12668)	12/1/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Milt Best	Respond to of 17679

>>"The cards cost the same to make"<<. Does not mean they will sell them for the same price as the old credit cards. The Ultracard will sell for more $$ due to the 20000x increase in capacity. Very profitable and huge market. Another potentially increasing revenue stream for AXC will be the DST's. Everything is going digital. I saw digital Xray machines on TV earlier this evening. Video-on-demand is getting hot. Where are they going to store all that digital data? Hopefully on an AMPEX DST. I'm definitely being patient on AXC. I've been in AXC for 3 years, I can wait a little longer. Milt

To: Rob Palmer who wrote (12668)	12/1/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: Milt Best	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

More info on the Ultracard. Pricing?? diz.webmaster.com >>"UltraCard? is producing a family of credit card-sized data storage devices and an inexpensive series of devices for reading and writing data to the Card. Capacities will increase over time as shown in Table 1, below: UltraCard? is available for market introduction now at 5 MB. MagnaCard? and NextCard? are under development with anticipated market introduction between 24 and 36 months after introduction of the UltraCard?. The UltraDrive? series of card readers/writers will complement product introductions."<<