When you look back at that 1996 article and then fast forward to `99 to see those 3 Intel execs sitting on the EDIG board, contemplate the projections for flash based handhelds we witnessed and look at the Napster revolution (pre-ipod) mushrooming, in a very bullish high tech stock market, it is no wonder why EDIG held such promise. There were real competitive products that hit the retail markets, magazine covers, MTV`s interest, mentions in TIME and newspaper accounts, DELL`s consideration (they held the MXP-100 long before they ventured into the MP3 market but opted for another route), Gateway, B&O and the PATENTS.

Well, the PATENTS remain, under evaluation, for a share of a multi-Billion dollar market that may be beholden to our hopes, visions and aspirations. I don`t think we all imagined it.

Every bit of it was real save for EDIG`s successful involvement.

I recognized there are about four dolts who still think it all happened because of little old me and some bits of posts taken way out of context, and I still chuckle today that those distortions are the centerpieces of their lives, but the story of EDIG is not yet over.

The risk has always been that a small, underfunded otcbb will get pushed aside by the international giants, and that has happened to a great extent, but the little guy and his patents still are protected and respected in the courts.

Time will tell, but if the sister company is any indicator, with EDIG being first to the flash interface, they could be found a big winner after all these years.

No doubt EDIG had/has something that attracted INTEL and some of its execs to position themselves with EDIG and there no doubt they were VERY EARLY to the flash game.

Realtiy bites...or does it?

It doesn`t get much more interesting than this in the world of the otcbb...David and Goliath.