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To: Tim McCormick who wrote (25462)	11/19/1997 1:44:00 AM
From: JPM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

New Jobs at C-CUBE and DiviCom.... C-CUBE currently has 34 types of jobs available, while DiviCom has 30 varieties... total is 64 different types of jobs... looks like things are going good... this is the highest total since I have been keeping track in April, when the total stood at 18... I am glad to know that my companies invest in R&D and are growing... go CUBE Jp

To: Tim McCormick who wrote (25462)	11/19/1997 4:23:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

<<David, does DVD-RAM have an impact on removable hard drives?>> Yes, DVD-RAM does impact removable drives used for data backup. I don't think it impacts the traditional hard disk drive (HDD) business, because HDD's have very fast access and transfer times. In comparing DVD-RAM and other removable storage products, I would look at: - The cost of drive and interface - The cost/megabyte of the media - The access time for reads and writes - The data transfer speed for reads and writes - Comaptibility with other media (CDROM, floppies) - Media life (for archival storage) - Number of times you can re-write the data on a disc - Whether you can share the drive with other PCs - Whether CREAF DVD-RAM has CUBE inside -- oops, how did this get here?

To: Tim McCormick who wrote (25462)	11/19/1997 8:02:00 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I would think DVD-RAM represents a strong threat to all existing removable storage formats. The one drawback people mention is the relatively slow access time of DVD-RAM vs. magnetic storage. Apparently, has already been addressed! I was surprised to learn that DVD-RAM improves significantly over CD technology in this area. I have some information on this somewhere, will try to dig it up. And, if the first generation of DVD-RAM already has an improvement here, what happens in successive generations? (guess) ...so, looks like Iomega and others have a significant competitive challenge in front of it. I'm not short on Iomega...but if I worked there, I would be selling my options. Personally, I think the whole thing is getting quite exciting, and predict people will "vote with their feet" Why? A simple matter of ONE format for distributing software, backing up data, playing back/recording video, and playing back/recording music? The time is finally here! Forget stupid articles in the WSJ about how "DVD isn't catching on" despite recent statistics which show upticks in player sales... This is really exciting, and I don't often "rah-rah"... Dan