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To: Andrew Vance who wrote (10192)	12/7/1997 3:28:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17305

I like your post. As a recovering engineer I appreciate what you are saying, if only to give the rest of us recovering TechnoAddicts a sense that we are not alone. While an early Apple II user, I had a 10 Mb hard drive. The envy of the early techie group I shortly became an antique collector."Hey, I got a friend that has an Apple 10 Meg hard drive that he keeps as a paperweight!." You're absolutely correct....they have been talking about market saturation for years. But as long as there are people like you, me, Hansen, Mitchell, there will be a market for high capacity storage and other innovations that help us do whatever it is we do in a more efficient manner. Progress in computing is not based on what those in the media or the financial media decide it should be....because they are not the people who see the value in the advance. The people who see the value are the people like us who embrace the technology and drag others along with us. There will never be enough capacity, never enough speed. It's like a drug, certainly. But the same naysayers were buying stocks in buggy whip companies while Henry Ford was spitting out Model T's. It's certainly not tomorrow or next week or next month, but key to keeping this country on the leading edge of the coming world wide problems economically is ingenuity on the technological front. These people that say it is not necessary to buy into more computing power than we currently have would not be satisfied with my 10Mb hard drive.....that's for certain. BTW....I am not buying a new TV until the new standard is available. Would you or anyone else? Is this not yet another example of people looking for superior quality over price? Or how about getting cable modems over ISDN over POTS? Why not tell me that people were happy with B/W TV in the '50s, so who needs color. This is a high-ballin' train and people will upgrade regardless of what the media says.