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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3039)	7/21/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: Investor2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

How about other Datek Customers - nothing for me yet.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3039)	7/21/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Tom M	Respond to of 5944

Just read a "SCSI vs ATAPI for CD-R" article in the August EMEDIA Pro magazine. Since it's a "feature" article of the issue, they don't have it available on their web site (www.onlineinc.com/emdeia). The only positive on IDE/ATAPI is a slight price advantage in my opinion. In their summary paragraph, they say "If you require high performance, multiple device support and multitasking, SCSI is well worth the small additional cost." Article's not extremely technical, but it does clearly make the point that your SCSI leaves the bus and CPU free to do other things whereas IDE leaves much of the PC inaccessible and underutilized while it's involved in a slow CD-R write operation. FWIW Tom

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3039)	7/21/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Starowl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

I'm with Waterhouse and haven't received my report either. I suppose this represents the middleman concept, and either Switz picked his up at the company or still trades with paper certificates and gets a direct mailing from the company. Nice that he's withheld "the good parts" so as not to spoil our reading--like a good book. Adaptec has given me some heartburn, no doubt, but its nice to see my Cisco and Lucent on a roll. That I haven't bought more Adaptec just before the earnings announcement might be interpreted as a good omen, for those looking for such things. Starowl