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This item is for the 
convenience of field support and sales.   
Someone like Jane Barth or Tari 
Runyan needs to hookup an AV-TS unit to her laptop to create a database on a 
floppy disk.  There is a perfectly convenient floppy drive on her laptop 
already.  These old AV-TS units exist in the field today and they will 
exist in the field tomorrow.  The company is not going to eat that 
inventory. 
Until the new unit becomes available 
for demonstrations and production, sales continues to demo the concept of touch 
screen voting with the old unit.  They can't even demonstrate 
the uploading of results unless they have an AV-TS unit connected to 
their laptops. 
For versatility's sake with the new 
unit, you should consider having the ability to download/upload a flash RAM on 
a GEMS computer. 
Ian 
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