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To: sheila rothstein who wrote (5974)	1/16/1999 11:13:00 PM
From: Reseller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Sheila >>I don't think that they could debug the HiFUD in 1-2 mo's<< I suspect that your right, the issue would seem to be a larger one than admitted. I recall during an exchange with what appeared to be a Sony employee that a statement was made of acceptance by the OEM's of HiFD because Sony wouldn't release a drive that wasn't fully tested. The issuance of evaluation units and subsequent recall to the OEM's would have been a major credibility blow. I believe that some OEM's have a 6 month testing period before acceptance for retail distribution and that's providing the product had a chance and was one of those rare items to have the opportunity to get into trials. At the very least I would say that for a creditable OEM relationship Sony is set back 8 months. I had pronounced Sony DOA a long time ago, I could be wrong but I don't expect them to be players in the hi-density floppy arena. IMO it's a case of too little too late Regards Reseller Dale, the other day I couldn't help but notice that IOM broke the story about their SyQuest's acquisitions, I didn't mention it then but noted that even though a definitive execution wasn't announced that the announcement was made during their quite period. So much for the quite period.