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To: damniseedemons who wrote (16533)	1/21/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: High-Tech East	Respond to of 24154

* OFF TOPIC * REQUEST FOR INFORMATION *** I can tell that many of you have strong technical backgrounds. I do not. Hopefully, you can and will offer some advice. My business is providing management and organizational consultants to senior managers in technology companies. Recently I have been asked to do more and more "searches" for clients for mid level and senior positions in a) systems software and applications software development and b) information technology or MIS. MY REQUEST: DO YOU KNOW OF AN ASSOCIATION(S) THAT OFFERS A DIRECTORY(IES) (PROBABLY OF MEMBERS) OF SENIOR LEVEL MANAGERS IN EITHER OR BOTH AREAS? ALSO, ARE THERE JOB POSTING SITES (FOR FEE OR FREE) ON THE INTERNET THAT YOU CONSIDER HIGH QUALITY WHERE I MIGHT POST SOME OF THE "SEARCH" POSITIONS I AM WORKING ON? My style of recruiting does not include pirating phone directories or organizational charts from individual companies. Networking among senior managers works well for me. In the years that I worked as a recruiter inside technology companies in the 1980s, a typical association would have been an IEEE or ACM, but that was for individual contributors, not senior managers. Thank you for your consideration. Ken Wilson Wilson Consultants Inc e-mail: wci@mediaone.net

To: damniseedemons who wrote (16533)	1/21/1998 9:10:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Bill, prices for SCSI have been stable--in contrast to prices for everything else in computer hardware, which have fallen sharply. Yep. I have an Adaptec SCSI in my PC at home, but just installed a new Ultra DMA controller. The cost of the new controller and a 8MB hard disk together is less than half the cost of the equivalent size SCSI Ultra-Wide drive. This is the new controller that outdoes ESDI, with 33MB/sec transfer rates.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (16533)	1/21/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Starowl	Respond to of 24154

The so-called "spin doctors" at Adaptec do not blame the problems on Asia at all. Suggest you read the quarterly report or take a look at reports of the conference call. Starowl

To: damniseedemons who wrote (16533)	1/21/1998 10:10:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Sal, having just bought a SCSI card after long shopping around, I don't understand Adaptec at all. Their stuff is all so expensive. I finally found a $50 Symbios/NCR 810 PCI card for $50, works fine though it's only straight SCSI3/10mbyte/sec. But, the same place had Symbios 875 UltraWide cards for $100, which compares to the Diamond Firesomething, $150, which compares to the Adaptec UW 290x $250 or whatever. But the cheap cards are almost impossible to find. It's nuts, and the SCSI disks all cost too much too. I queried some Quantum engineer on usenet about that once, Quantum is the only disk man. that markets SCSI equivalents of its mass market EIDE disks, at a relatively minor price differential. He said the SCSI market was relatively miniscule, I wonder why. My local PC hardware guy thinks EIDE is junk, and SCSI has its advantages, but the price differential is ridiculous. Of course, the other thing that annoys me is that my mobo was designed for a built-in Adaptec chip, but Micron deleted it as a manufacturing option so they could save maybe $20, and charge the usual $200 for an adaptec card. I hate it when they do that. Between Apple's demise and the odd marketing of cheap SCSI cards and standardization on Adaptec, SCSI is getting more and more marginalized. This is not an investment perspective, just a cheap hardware shopper's perspective, but I really wonder about Adaptec. Of course, I don't know what the deal with Symbios is either, maybe the ghost of AT&T's complete mismanagement of NCR. I hate it when they do that, too. Cheers, Dan.