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To: EUGENETUCK who wrote (9137)	4/15/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Blind Luck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

What about Agfa? Did everyone miss the statement by Jodie that Agfa was going to introduce a camera by MID-YEAR with Clik! built-in? This was one of the biggest points inthe CC. Also, it doesn't take a genius to look at the tables and see the excellent cost and productivity improvement across the board.

To: EUGENETUCK who wrote (9137)	4/16/1999 12:08:00 AM
From: David S.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10072

Eugene, Glad to see all the newbies on the thread - Welcome. Hopefully no one need tell you that Rockhead is the soul brother of Gary Hoke (the guy that just got arrested by the FBI for pumping up Pairgain with false posting). Except the Rockhead is too stupid to pump anything up, such that he has no nookie, he just pumps IOM down. That is his life and obsession. When someone catches him in a documented lie instead of his casual BS stories, he will be reported to the FBI as well - a little more serious than SI internet jail. Wish him well, he loves internet spittle. As for the tie ratios on Clik. These will be enormous. The reasons are obvious. Anyone who works with computers seriously generates stuff they want save, need to save, and just save out of laziness. The smaller and cheaper the media, the more this occurs. I know this from the experience of hundreds of users. Zip is just starting to show this phenomenon because of the ubiquity of the drives and the more reasonable price of the disks. Yet still, for the average user, it takes a bit to fill up a Zip disk and they cost more than an ordinary lunch, and thus they are not passed around as if they were coasters and they get partially reused. Clik is just the right size to provide the true replacement for the cheap floppy disk (whether 5 and 1/4 or 3.5). And if it is used as a film substitute in digital cameras, the tie ratio will grow like crazy. People will spend 10 to 15 bucks on a bunch of stupid pictures of their friends sticking their tongues out or of some dusty buildings or canyons that are forgotten before the prints arrive. Who has time to sort through 30 to 40 pictures, erase a few, reorganize the keepers on another disk, etc. No sir, there will be drawers full of Clik disks accumulated here and there for years to come. And the business use of Clik will be what the 3.5 inch floppys were from the mid eighties to now. Tons of the suckers piling up in every office. Small cheap removable interchangeable media is the path to mountains of steady revenue. Think of film, slides, floppies, CDs, VHS tapes. That is the market for a solid ten years per product (till the next hot ubiquitous media comes along.) Regards, David S. INTC DELL HD WCOM LU IOM ANSC PGTV UNPH SDLI