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Technology Stocks : Ampex Corporation (AEXCA) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sean who wrote (1218)	11/11/1997 12:03:00 AM
From: tech101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

KM has been around for more than two years. If the KM technology is so cost-effective why ,until now,still can not Ampex find a buyer? Are people in the disk industry blind or idiots? Or Ampex is asking too much? The only explanation to me is that the initial cost to produce KMed platters and the special magnet heads is too high. The hard disk industry may worry that the fast changing technology may completely eliminate the investment in KM in a few months. I hope anyone here can verify this or correct me. The DST tape drives sounded very attractive and promising until I found that it uses 19mm tape (rather than 4 mm, 8mm, or ¬ inch tape) with huge footage (8 square foot and 527 lb) and consumes 700 watts power (DST 412). Ampex is the only vendor who still uses the huge DD-2 19mm tape format in the tape industry. There is an article in the recent Unix Review (Dec. 97) that compares the high capacity tape including Ampex DST products.