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To: Gus who wrote (8385)	6/2/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Gus; <<By the way, the DOD/Darpa is giving the holographic crowd until this year to prove the technology or else.>> I would love to hear more about this. Best, Stitch

To: Gus who wrote (8385)	6/3/2000 11:09:00 AM
From: Toko	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Hi Gus, <Re: TeraStor closure: Wow. They must have burned through, what, $100 million in several stages of VC funding. As I recall, they were trying to assign the blame for the numerous delays to Seagate and its withdrawal from the consortium just prior to Seagate's acquisition of Quinta and its far-field recording technology.> 1. Pull out of SEG Heads group didn't help, but it appears there was just too many underlaying technical problems, and even if they could have delivered a product to market it would have been late, so that the cost per MB advantages that they originally envisioned basically disappeared. 2. I heard that after SEG internalized the Quinta IP, at some point they either quit or radically reduced their funding for optically assisted recording. Again. probably due to the high perceived price tag and time that would be required to commercialize it. 3. So, HDD and Tape Drives as mainline technologies look like they have leadership roles intact. Now all they have to figure out is how to best get around the superparamagnetic effect in the next few years. -TOKO