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To: Mark who wrote (1470)	3/29/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Respond to of 5944

Mark, <Is that investment advice ?> ROFLMAO! Great line. FF

To: Mark who wrote (1470)	3/29/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: N. David Lessani	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

SCSI vs. IDE From PC Magazine "Traditionally, recordable CD technology has been a SCSI-only game. You had to install a SCSI host adapter in your machine to connect a CD-R drive. SCSI-base drives still predominate, but nearly every vendor also offers IDE-base recordable, and parallel-port models( such as the HP unit tested in this roundup) have begun to appear as well. SCSI-base drive are generally MORE VERSATILE and RELIABLE than IDE-base models. We found IDE drives more prone to BUFFER UNDERRUNS, in which the buffer runs out of data to record and ABORT THE RECORDING.- meaning to have to start again with fresh disk. Our testing also revealed that with recordable CD DRIVES, YOU MUST HAVE a SCSI CD-ROm drive in order to successfully copy CDs. And all recordable CD drives REQUIRE A SCSI drive to make HIGH QUALITY reproductions of audio Cds. When we used an IDE-CD-ROM dive(COMMON in MOST PCs) CD copies OFTEN DID NOT WORK, and audio CDs were full of POPS, HISSES and OTHER ILL-SOUNDING ARTIFACTS." "ADAPTEC's CD spin doctor, part of EASY CD CREATOR DELUXE, makes creating audio CDs from old LPs as easy as 1,2,3. DELL uses APAPTEC SCSI, HP uses EDI, We wonder why DELL can sell more computer than HP.! GO ADPT. Good luck everybody!

To: Mark who wrote (1470)	3/29/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: Camron Rafizadeh	Respond to of 5944

David, Farout!! Lookin Goo...od!

To: Mark who wrote (1470)	3/30/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: slob	Respond to of 5944

All: Intraday chart shows, what looks like, SOES trading, Any comments? Slob

To: Mark who wrote (1470)	3/30/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: slob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

Mark, I just finished an informal search of ADPT's job's page! One of the most interesting things to turn up was that there are only a few engineering positions available, however, in areas like operations there was a long list of vacances. I like to track jobs as a leading indicator, the lack of major engineering listings speaks volumes by itself, however that coupled with a push toward operations really shows managements hand. My read is that the push is on a ADPT to save money, Design Engineering generally has little if any impact on the performance of a company for at least 1.5 to 2 years, yet it's a black hole for resources and capital. Personally it seems to me that ADPT should be focusing on new product development, they have a very narrow product portfolio and are seeing competition on a number of fronts yet I don't see a product roadmap that addresses this condition. Any comments? Slob