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To: Bleeker who wrote (7559)	3/19/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 9124

Just for peoples information, in CDN$, the wholesale price of DLT drives is as follows Summer 97 Now DLT4000 6500 4600 DLT7000 11900 9800 SONY AIT I have no data 4300 EXBT mammoth 4300 The DLT4000 is roughly equivalent to the AIC/EXBT drives, a little slower but linear tape path may make it more gentle and less like to damage tapes. DLT7000 is faster and larger than AIC This would confirm my observation that Quantum has priced the 4000 series drive to compete with AIC and EXBT mammoth, and is maintaining a good price premium on the 7000 drive. Although that price is down by almost 20%, hopefully their margins have held up if volume increased as was expected (QNTM is trying to shift emphasis to the higher end product).