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Technology Stocks : PINNACLE MICRO (PNCL) - A QUALITY PICK FOR '98 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dusty who wrote (1634)	8/17/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: FloydP	Respond to of 1709

Your suggestion about lowering prices is a great one. The fly in the ointment is and has always been, that Magneto Optical drives have always been too expensive to produce. Its tough to price a 5.2 Gbyte drive @ under $1K because the manufacturing cost is probably in the $400-500 range. Things will change hopefully when NFR (near field recording devices) become more commonly available. Niche markets will keep optical alive but in the foreseealble future Magentic Hard Drives from the likes of Seagate, Quantum, etc. will continue to be the mass storage device of choice.