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To: Jerome Wittamer who wrote (3101)	5/23/1998 8:51:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

I previously listed links to two sites which offered detailed product presentations for MMC. Has anyone bothered to visit them and, if so, what is the concensus about the applicability of this innovation? A guy named Andy Profit (prophet2@mmca.org) is the representative for the MMC Association. I e-mailed a question to him and got a response in 15 minutes. I think he can be an excellent resource for us. Please visit the website. www.mmca.org My understanding is that the MMC may be able to fit into a CF caddy. Thus, it "competes" with CompactFlash in some regards. I own a Sandisk CF card (15 MB) and the ImageMate reader. The reader is recognized in the same fashion by my computer as the floppy disk drive or the CD ROM drive. It is also lightning fast. I like the "look and feel" of the CF card. It is small, yet substantial. It is rugged. It feels good in your hands. SmartMedia is like a black potato chip. It is flimsy and delicate. It looks cheap. The only problem being Olympus' and Fuji's promotion of this medium. The high-end Olympus is the only "affordable" digital SLR on the market and has had great reviews. But, how many people are going to cough up $1200.00 for a first generation consumer SLR digital camera? You can figure that out. I am much more concerned about the Fuji camera line. Their newest 1.5 megapixel camera is sweet and priced under $800.00. I thought that Sandisk received some royalty payments for SmartMedia as mentioned in Jerome's post. Can somebody please confirm this. Meanwhile, sales people tell me that the Sony Mavica is red hot. "For every digital camera we sell by any manufacturer, we will also sell 10 Mavicas. People want the option to write directly to floppy disk." Supposedly the next mega-pixel Mavica will have a different storage medium. (Possibly a SmartMedia card imbedded in the floppy?) The sales guy at BestBuy tells me it may be a Zip drive. (Please see my post from several weeks ago regarding the Mavica.) Then all they have to do is convince the PDA/palm top manufacturers to add the Zip drive to the next generation of products.