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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (19)	3/3/1999 4:34:00 PM
From: M CAHILL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 497

I wonder how much this news will effect LSI's earnings? lsilogic.com Looks like the Playstation 2 will blow the doors off my 400 Pentium II PC. I wonder what their PC's will be like in another year or two? Will they still have Intel inside or will the have a different CPU. Looks like the playstation 2 will support the USB port. Wonder if printers and hard drives can be added? Maybe the playstation will replace the $1000 PC, WebTV set top box, and the playstation 1. I already have a Sony 21" monitor, car stereo, playstation, hifi stereo, headphones and walkman. Would be nice to see a Gateway Destination type system from Sony that communicates with all their other devices. Sony is one of the few companies that can create standards. Maybe they ought to get behind the Linux operating system and distance themselves from MSFT and INTC.

To: Don Dorsey who wrote (19)	3/4/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 497

Sony Sets Up New Company, Starts E-Money Tests Mar 04, 1999, (Comline via COMTEX) -- Sony (6758) will set up a new company, EM Operations, to run e-money trials using an IC card developed in-house, FeliCa. Sakura Bank (8314), Mitsui Fudosan (8801) and others will join Sony for its establishment. In July, EM Operations will start trials with 20,000 tenants of Gate City Osaki, a recently completed office building. Sony is looking to establish a solid presence in the e-money realm with FeliCa, on which information stored can be read without coming into contact with the reader. The card is already being used as a prepaid card in such applications as the Hong Kong subway system.