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To: Mel Boreham who wrote (8110)	3/9/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Interesting Apple related items: maccentral.com Apple retail sales up 176% in January Funny how some companies can do things right and whose leadership has a clear vision (AAPL and S. Jobs), and other companies can't seem to do things at all, and have their heads stuck up somewhere else (IOM CEO Jodie and Co.). Also Check this out: maccentral.com Hands On: CD-RW, the future of Mac removable media? Recent price cuts and speed gains have made one standard emerge as a prominent contender for not only exchanging files, but also for backing up data and a few other practical uses. The removable media format in question is the time-tested CD-ROM... Producing data CDs couldn't be easier. Toast allows you to simply drag and drop files into a window, where they're ready to be burned to a CD. ... I love my CD-RW drives. I have 2 of them, and my extensive CD-R archives fill up an entire shelf safe in the knowledge that they can be read by all of the future DVD drives coming out. And CD-R media is ridiculously cheap-- A very economical means of storage indeed. Iomega Zip? Outrageously expensive $/MB, and Slow-- CD-R's can be read at many times the speed of a Zip. And there is no guarantee that Iomega can stay in business, leaving those that used Zip for backup/arhival stranded.

To: Mel Boreham who wrote (8110)	3/9/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

"Is it possible that we might see a doubling in the density of the Clik! media to 80 Megs?" Not unless there is some technology newer than the Zip 250 out there in Iomega's hands, IMHO. From a purely geometric standpoint, the maximum capacity of the drive is about 60 MB for data at the same density as the Zip 250. If there is to be a "caddy" as was mentioned eons ago and as a patent hinted at recently, we're just about tapped out here. But, IMHO (too), it's not really a bad place to be tapped out at. 40 MB is an awful lot of pictures/audio files. Cameron "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

To: Mel Boreham who wrote (8110)	3/10/1999 12:16:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

Mel, thanks for the conversation with Tyler. Here's a ranking of computer stocks by 5 year average return from WSJ. I think you can access it without subscription.(?) They lump DD companies together with box makers. Dell is number one. Guess who is number 2? interactive.wsj.com Anyone WITHOUT a WSJ subscription: were you able to access it? Gottfried