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To: Will Lyons who wrote (7228)	12/30/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: timwa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

To the contrary, I think that IBM's new Microdrive, which is coming out in 1999 and includes a GMR head, will be the choice for many applications, such as digital cameras and internet appliances and things we have not even thought of yet. I think we have not risen because JMAR has yet to prove the success of their new products and to achieve the resulting revenue. I would prefer to be on board before it is proven as I am a calculated risk taker.

To: Will Lyons who wrote (7228)	1/2/1999 9:51:00 PM
From: Mesaba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9695

I had a friend who had done some research on flash RAM and he found that they "flashed" the RAM and quite quickly became unstable. But this was research so "quickly" could mean constant access for a couple weeks. It's great for applications where the bits aren't modified all that much, but isn't yet a viable solution for the amount of access that today's computers need. That research was a couple years ago so I'm sure things have changed but it would have taken off in PCs already if any breakthrough had been made. Just like DVDs. They came out affordably and in a big way in the last year or two and they're already standard on many PCs. M