# of CDOV Shares: Subject to Completion Preliminary Prospectus Dated September 1, 2000 PROSPECTUS 10,000,000 Shares Comdisco, Inc. Comdisco Ventures Group Stock ----------- Comdisco, Inc. is offering Comdisco Ventures group stock, a new series of our common stock intended to reflect the separate performance of Comdisco Ventures group, our venture financing business. The U.S. underwriters are offering 8,500,000 shares in the U.S. and Canada and the international managers are offering 1,500,000 shares outside the U.S. and Canada. We anticipate that the price to the public will be between $14.00 and $16.00 per share. This is Comdisco, Inc.'s first public offering of Comdisco Ventures group stock and, currently, no public market exists for these shares. We have applied to list our Comdisco Ventures group stock on the Nasdaq National Market, under the symbol "CDOV." |