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To: Jonas who wrote (5350)	5/1/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: gammaray	Respond to of 14464

Jonas, You hit on something in your par 2. Something is coming. Very low vol Weds. Normal vol yeterday and low today. Why low vol Weds and today? Because the large players have been told something so they are not selling. The wild card is YESTERDAY. Recall that I alerted the Inn of a big jump in volume on the upside. Dan said several 10k buys went thru. That was the pre advance buying on the upcoming news. The advanced buying will start soon enough. And then the public will buy. Neil

To: Jonas who wrote (5350)	5/2/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Trenton A. Scott	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14464

You may be just a tad crazy, considering RMTR has never earned a dime in net profit! In fact, RMTR is very adept at losing considerable amounts of money, even breaking poor Oren Benton's back a few years ago. That ugly balance sheet is getting uglier. What to do when management is faced with an unwavering string of operating losses? What to do when National Semiconductor thinks it owns U.S. patent rights on key FRAM technology? What to do when every year brings new "alliance partners" that only deliver "samples." What to do when every year these new partners seem to make very little difference (5.8 million in 1997) to bottom-line revenue? What good are partners that ship little and pay even less? Could those so-called partners actually be playing a waiting game? (Can you say "How much do you want for FRAM and EDRAM Patent Rights in Japanese?) What does management do when sales and margins continue to slip, and when annual revenues don't cover two-thirds of expenses? Answer: Each year management finds more speculators to buy even more freshly fabricated RMTR stock, diluting it faster than President Clinton can hire defense lawyers. How many more years will Sikes convince enough people to give him money to make it through yet another year of losses? Despite these dismal facts, every year David Sikes restates his "belief in a model for sustainable profitability will emerge." To me, the only thing that has "emerged" is the realization that Sikes and his cohorts are raking in nice sums of compensation and enjoying a very fine lifestyle in Colorado Springs (Picture them taking lots of three-day weekends to Aspen in their BMWs.), while "running" a company that "emerges" nothing but losses for everyone else. Regards, Trenton.