RE: Demise of MIDI?

[Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com>]

Hello All-
As far as ZIPI goes, the decidely non-wimpy, disrepectfully futuristic,
cutting edge dancin', tryin' to build more Echoplexes of a Product Manager
at Oberheim says: We will wait and see, also.

As to the death of MIDI, a new
format/protocol/"recently-found-original-master
tape"/CD/DAT/MiniDisc/DVD/Adat/DA88/Pentium/MMX strategy has been used
before to jump-start sluggish sales trends by greater Marketing Minds than
ours. Who can say? 

Tom

At 12:05 PM 10/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark asked: "Hey you customer reps at Oberheim, Boomerang and Lexicon:
>Do you know anything about the demise of MIDI or the introduction of
>ZIPI?"
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>No,I know nothing of this.  I am sure that our Marketing/Engineering
>folks would wait until things were more firmly established before taking
>the great leap on to the razor blade known as cutting edge.  Wimpy? Yes.
>Respectfully realistic?  Yes again.
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>regards,
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>Greg Hogan
>Lexicon Customer Service
>Phone +781-280-0372
>FAX +781-280-0499
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