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Technology Stocks : QUANTUM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam who wrote (8933)	6/5/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Will Cunningham	Respond to of 9124

You've been holding since 1995? That year was the first time I had ever heard of Quantum and a broker at Paine Webber was pushing the Quantum story about that time (I think it was trading around $21 and then sank to $15-17 or something like that.) Quantum had just purchased the tape business from Digital in December 1994 and I think the Street didn't initially like the acquisition. I remember the acquisition taking more time and money initially to be accretive. Wasn't the Digital tape unit called "McData" or something. I may have this confused with an EMC acquisition around that time. This story would have been nice to see in a few weeks. Maybe end of June or something. I still think that Meridian is a nice back-door to Quantum and tracking stock ownership. I think the stock could be volatile between now and August.