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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (2963)	11/2/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Chucky	Respond to of 10072

Rocky, you sound bitter. IOM's doing just what you wanted it to do...Oh, I forgot, you went short. Oh well, as Allen pointed out, you're still making money on your long?????

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (2963)	11/2/1998 8:53:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

>>Article lists 96MB CompactFlash for $220. This is about $2.30 per MB. CompactFlash prices are crashing downward. They are currently about $3.50 per MB. Earliuer this year they were about $6 per MB.<< Rocky - You're comparing a high-volume OEM price to a retail price. The 96MB CompactFlash card will cost substantially more than $220 by the time it gets to retail. Still, I believe a lot of users would rather pay 25 cents a megabyte than 3.50, or even 2.00. I find it really hilarious the way you predict the sales of items which have not yet shipped. It must be very helpful to an investor to be able to see the future so clearly. Amazing how you know that no one will buy Clik! after the first couple of months. By the way, S. Bateh didn't say Clik! would be in at Ingram last week. He said that the Ingram system listed an arrival date of 10/29. Those dates sometimes change, as anyone who has been waiting for HiFD to arrive should know. It's also very funny that you believe that SyQuest's customers will now buy DVD-RAM and CD-RW drives. Funny that people who want a device that can run at near hard drive speed would suddenly decide they will buy something that doesn't do that. Rocky, part of your problem is that you don't realize that you know very little about computers or computer users. Just because you know your way around a digital mixing board, you assume yourself to be a technomaven. The reason so many different types of storage devices exist in the marketplace is that there are different types of storage needs. Let me put this in a way that you can understand. If you want to record direct to disk, you choose a hard drive or a removable cartridge hard drive such as SyJet or Jaz2. You don't record direct to CD-R because it's too slow. There are a lot of applications where the speed is absolutely necessary. Yes, sometimes you can record to a hard disk and then transfer to a CD-R, but sometimes you just don't have that kind of time. Ah, well, it doesn't matter what you or I think people will buy. It only matters what they do buy. The numbers will tell, in the long run. - Allen