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To: Pierre-X who wrote (2065)	1/4/1998 10:22:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Hi Pierre, I made careful note of your double grin emoticon when you said: <I may have to upgrade my CPU as well. Um, and my hard disk!> Ahh, the price of toys for men and boys. Fact is I find myself slavering to go buy a new PC when I should be very happy with my P166MMX w/64mb ram and kool whizbang thingamajigs this and that. In fact, 90% of my work could probably be done with one of those sub $1k PCs. Uhhh...wait...I guess I just described what a sub $1k pc is. So how come mine cost $2k??? Drat! <G> Best, Stitch

To: Pierre-X who wrote (2065)	1/5/1998 3:34:00 AM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9256

Pierre, Am about to return my IBM Via Voice speech recognition for Dragon Systems because the IBM program has higher system requirements. Although mine meets the minimums, the time to load and commence dictation are long and the dictation runs way behind. Guess I need more than 166 Mh Pentium with 80 MB RAM for IBM. Curious which program you use and what your experience has been. I think we'll see this as a significant driver of at least Pentium II systems over the next few years. And I suspect that this software will continue to bloat and increase system requirements as they strive to improve performance. I guess the question is whether this and high bandwidth modems will demand computing power greater than what $1000 buys at that future date.

To: Pierre-X who wrote (2065)	1/5/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 9256

PX, Jim Porter of DiskTrend was kind enough to reply to my query about the limits to areal density. GM Email jporter@disktrend.com disktrend.com Excerpt: The experts have varying estimates of the "super paramagnetic limit" -- the level at which a magnetic domain would no longer be stable at room temperature -- with a range of 40 to 70 gigabits per square inch. You might want to explore the IBM Almaden Research Center's site at www.almaden.ibm.com, which has brief coverage. There's a detailed chapter on recording limitations in "Magnetic Recording Technology", a book by C. Denis Mee and Eric D. Daniels published by IEEE Press.