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

To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (2682)	6/15/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Starowl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5944

JCD: If it hangs in there today, you may be right about the bottom. You've probably noticed several product announcements today. All are SCSI products. (I guess the company hasn't been reading--or doesn't buy--the various comments on the slow, painful death of SCSI ;-]): 1: Announcement on four new SCSI cards--two variations of the AHA-2940U2W (FWIW, Adaptec's 80MB/sec Ultra2 SCSI card only started shipping earlier this year) for the desktop/workstation market and two with 64-bit PCI technology for the server market. Three will be available (only to computer OEMs) early next month and the fourth in September with prices ranging from $180 to $320. biz.yahoo.com 2: Announcement of its first Ultra2 SCSI Protocol silicon product--the AIC-43C97, intended to compel "developers to migrate their peripheral designs to this new technology and to offer products that take full advantage of the speed and flexibility of Ultra2." Sounds like a good idea to me. Samples available in July. biz.yahoo.com 3: And a new version of EZ-SCSI, which is campatible with Windows 98 and includes Web-CheckUp (for the latest drivers) and other useful utilities. Comes with all host adaptor kits. biz.yahoo.com Other news: Today through Wednesday is the Network Storage '98 conference in Monterey. Adaptec will participate in Session 4--"Arrays in Storage Networks - Applications and Connectivity" along with Symbios, Mylex, Ancor, Ciprico, and Transoft Technolgy. Some arcane data: Forbearance from you tech wizards please, but I recently learned that the 400Mbps (bits) figures we hear for some 1394 devices is actually slower than the 80Mb/sec (bytes) offered by the Ultra2 SCSI card. (To exceed that rate, 1394 would have to get to 800Mbps--which is the rate TI just announced for its 1394 product projected for the end of this year.) Clarifications would be welcome. Starowl ADPTProducts