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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (3176)	5/1/1998 11:45:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Respond to of 9256

OT Lawrence, <<CNBC says that Bank of Japan exec director commits suicide.>> Bank of Japan Executive Director Is Found Dead Following Scandal Dow Jones Newswires TOKYO -- Bank of Japan Executive Director Takayuki Kamoshida apparently hung himself Saturday, the Kyodo news service cited police as saying. According to Kyodo, police said Mr. Kamoshida, 58, was found dead by his chauffeur at a housing complex in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward. No other details of Mr. Kamoshida's death were immediately available. Mr. Kamoshida was in charge of administrative matters at the central bank. (More followed) Yogi

To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (3176)	5/5/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 9256

Re: Tape libraries Any DLT fans have anything good or bad to say about ATLPA? A rapidly growing little operation out of Irvine, I came across it when a friend's sister started working there. I think I'll go on a dirt-digging trip. Gross margin: 36.6% MRQ Top line up 63% from year-ago Q Income tripled from year-ago Q (18 cents vs 6 cents) 25% Europe ("VAR") product sales rose to account for 53% ... ... relies heavily upon its relationships with selected OEMs who sell and support the Company's products ... Three customers, Sun Microsystems, EMC Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation, together accounted for approximately 43% of the Company's total net sales during the first nine months of fiscal 1998. The Company currently derives substantially all of its revenues from the sale of its DLT based products and related services... ...the Company's principal competitors, Advanced Digital Information Corporation, Breece Hill Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Overland Data and StorageTek... ...indirect competitors include ADIC, Exabyte, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Spectra Logic and StorageTek. From April 1, 1995 to December 31, 1997, the size of the Company's staff increased from 66 to 287 employees. God bless, PX