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To: Stitch who wrote (4045)	7/29/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 9256

Stitch, recent short interest... Short interest (shares) 7/24/98 7/24/98 6/24/98 %chge daily vol days SI QUANTUM CP 5077297 5761010 -11.9 2402111 2.1 SEAGATE 6812335 6750938 0.9 2359619 2.9 WESTERN DIGITAL 15392709 15784442 -2.5 1439980 10.7 READ-RITE CP 4998630 6294610 -20.6 966937 5.2 KOMAG INC 2371143 2701684 -12.2 702367 3.4 H M T TECHNOL 4832331 4072313 18.7 497049 9.7 HUTCHINSON TECH 4712806 5131268 -8.2 475514 9.9 interactive.wsj.com Looks like the shorts are losing interest in RDRT.<g> GM

To: Stitch who wrote (4045)	7/29/1998 7:15:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Stitch, <<I actually think , at least for me, the real draw is being able to carry around my musical play list on my laptop.>> Yeah, I know what you mean but technology doesn't advance in a vacuum. Your laptop probably has a CD player on board. In, what, a couple of years you will have a rewriteable cd the size of a half dollar that can store an entire week of your choice of music. No doubt, you will have downloaded that music from Amazon.music.com or whatever with a one week or one month or lifetime "license" to listen to it. You could program it for random play, tell it what to play, tell it what artist to play, whatever. Still, no net gain on your hard drive. On the high end drive at your ISP or Amazon or Sony they will need a Yottabyte. (Not really, I just wanted to use the word "Yottabyte" in a sentence <VBG>). It's sort of a wierd thin client/fat client type of disagreement, Yogi