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To: Gottfried who wrote (26898)	12/4/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Gottfried, RE:While I'm no polyanna, I've decided to grow horns. :) With respect to semiconductors, this is a good move long-term. Some simple examples of why: Almost every new consumer device contains ICs and many of them. The Furby is silicon driven furbytoys.com. Zelda, which is in short supply, uses four 64Mb ROMs. You can expect as many of these cartridges to ship as there are game units. It's a 16MB(megabyte) cartridge. Here's an old story about ROM suppliers to Nintendo. eb-mag.com Dreamcast will be another nice toy, 200MHz Hitachi SH-4 CPU - 26MB of RAM. crw.com This just scratches the surface. From here on out, when you buy something at Best Buy, Circuit City, or wherever, it will have a lot chips in it. That's just the way it is. Digital cameras are probably the coolest thing out there. Take a picture and send it to your family whenever you feel like it. Five minutes after you take the picture pass it along, or put it up on your website. Here's a link to the coolest dog in the world. This was taken with a regular camera and scanned. geocities.com Bob