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To: Sam who wrote (3199)	5/4/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Sam: People are blowing this demand thing out of proportion. The gigs will be needed don't worry. When something is made very cheap (such as disk-drive capacity) people will be not afraid to dump their mother, their mother's album, the family dog, 8 versions of IE, 4000 audio clips, 300 games, a ton of material copped off a DVD, developers will build apps that will take advantage of the loads of space, etc etc etc. Give them capacity and they will come... Shane.

To: Sam who wrote (3199)	5/4/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Tom Simpson	Respond to of 9256

Sam, Yup.....there is that long view and in due time.... I agree that it will be "imaging" in some form that does it. But digital cameras are still a long ways from putting film in the trash bin. There is this small problem of what you "print" it on. My HP LJ4+ has a hard time with color and inkjets don't exactly put out "photo quality". Even using a 21 in monitor at 1200 the image is less than crisp and satisfying. Its been slow coming and I can't see it as being significant before another couple of years anyway. It would be nice if I was wrong about that :o) Tom