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To: LTBH who wrote (1041)	6/3/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Yep, approximate is the way I read ~. But there ain't no way it was Kelvin. Not a chance. Bet on it. The hi-temp superconductors that IBM was fooling with a few years ago were about -70 C as I recall (0K is -273C). I have read about improved performance near 0C (freezing of water) which is pretty darn hard to maintain also. Like you, I read about this some time ago, and I may have it wrong. I think what I read was in Boot Mag about a user's method of extreme overclocking. There have been no commercial applications of the "high" temp (-70k) superconductors that I know about. These can only be demonstrated in laboratory thin films, as far as I know. I haven't followed it closely since the year or so after the original announcement several years ago, but it's highly likely that if there were commercially viable applications extent, we'd know it without vaguely remembering it from somewhere. Of course, I've been wrong before, but that's my take. 0 Kelvin? Betcha not even close. Spots