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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slob who wrote (2546)	6/8/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: Starowl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

slob: Thanks for the informative post. I suppose I now have a pretty good idea of where Adaptec fits in the 1394 market, at least where products are concerned. Still have no idea about its sales. Competition, such as it is, doesn't seem much of a threat in the 1394 adaptor card market. Both Unibrain and Truevision, and perhaps TI, sport adaptor cards for 1394 and there are probably others. And just to round things out, in late February Adaptec quit selling its 1394 Developer's Kit, claiming 1394 strides toward widespread acceptance in various applications and "use of 1394 as the de facto standard for Digital Video (DV)" with its foothold in the consumer marketplace. At that time, Adaptec said it was going to concentrate on the end-user customer base, meaning the ordinary folks with the camcorder. The developer's kit contained the AHA-8940 card, which I believe is no longer produced. Then in March, Adaptec began marketing its HotConnect Kits--one with the Ultra 8945 (SCSI/1394) for $699 and one with the 8920 (1394 only) for $299. It also announced design of a CardBus-to-1394 adapter for laptops to become available at the end of this year. I wonder what Adaptec is doing to prepare for 1394 and the HDD market. Starowl