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

To: Tony B who wrote (3210)	7/27/1998 10:44:00 AM
From: Joseph Francis Torti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Glad to hear one opinion for the SCSI technology. I for one do not know what the heck Adaptec sells or how many competitors it has. I am mainly a fundamentalist who hope Adpt will return to their glory days. The only hope I have now clinged on to insider's buying lightly and open interest in options favor Adapt going up more then going down. And the gross profit margin only declined 4% last quarter.

To: Tony B who wrote (3210)	7/28/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Tony B, I agree that SCSI is far from dead. Au Contraire, it's very much alive and well. It looks like Adaptec doesn't necessarily have the inside track on it anymore, though. Seems Symbios has gotten themselves designed in on Intel's upcoming Xeon based servers. The SC450NX, below, is Intel's flagship server product. A huge goal that Intel has for it (actually the Xeon chips in it) is to raise their ASP's from the lows that have happened because of the sub $1000, or, whatever PC, and some competition from AMD, etc. Besides that, this server and its cousins are going to vault NT way over the top of UNIX (I know Intel has had a couple of flaws in the Xeon chipset). Kind of surprising to me that they're taking Symbios along for the ride, instead of Adaptec. The first URL has the detailed spec., the second has a pretty picture. Point to the descriptives of the various components in the server, and see them pop out for more detail. developer.intel.com developer.intel.com Intel SC450NX Server Platform Product Specifications Processor/Cache Processor Supported Up to four 400 or 450 MHz Pentium II Xeon Processors with 100 MHz system bus 512KB, 1M, or 2M full speed L2 cache System Memory Memory Capacity 4 GB with 16 DIMM sockets for EDO DRAM DIMM Sizes 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB and 256 MB Error Detection Corrects single-bit errors, detects double-bit errors (using ECC memory). Nibble error detection also provided. Integrated I/O SCSI Symbios* Logic SYM53C896 dual channel SCSI-3 Ultra2 SCSI controller. Symbios* Logic SYM5353C810AE Narrow Fast SCSI controller. Graphics Maximum Resolution Graphics Memory Cirrus Logic* GD 5480 1,600 x 1,200; 16.7M colors 2 MB 10 ns SGRAM IDE Single channel for a total of two IDE devices Super I/O Controller National* Super 87309 Serial Ports Two Asynch, RS-232C, 9 pin and 10 pin Parallel Port IEEE 1284, 25 pin bidirectional Floppy Controller 1.44 MB, 2.88 MB, 3-mode support Keyboard/Mouse Port PS/2, 8240A compatible Expansion Slots (seven total) Description Three on PCI-A, four on PCI-B (one shared PCI/ISA on PCI-B) System Form Factor Pedestal Rack Height 18.06" with feet 7U Width 12.25" 19" Depth 25.25" Weight 85 lbs. (minimum config.)