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To: Jerry Olson who wrote (27719)	7/21/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Good level to go long if 1385 is out, NDX is showing good movement, DOT retesting 600 IIX at 300 os right now we are at an important level.. I would think this time if it rallies from here safelu 612 will be a good entry so would be a rebound to 1385 and above. we will than have a good close..

To: Jerry Olson who wrote (27719)	7/27/1999 5:21:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

PC debate has been going on .. on this thread you would find a post of mine where in 1997 we dealt with slowing PC's.. I raised the example of a new car and new PC..than.. like in 1997 June we were talking about death of inflation and aradigm of new economy when these terms were still not coined.. I was happy to see this today in Motley Fools .. <<,,.... Did you see that, according to IDC, demand for PCs climbed 26%? Now does this strike anyone besides me as a little strange? I mean, you have all these industry pundits and CEOs talking about how the PC slowdown is about to hit, and then BOOM! We're up 26%. I mean Mr. Bill himself was talking last week about the coming slowdown in PCs. Woe is me. The end is near. Right! Give me a break! These guys are always crying wolf. Every spring they say that this year is it -- the year PC growth is going to slow. And you know what, it doesn't. Grows 15%-plus every year. And I'll tell you something else. These folks who say that the PC is going to get replaced by Palms, set-top boxes, TVs or microwave ovens are kidding themselves. No way. No way in the world, especially in the workplace, that the PC is going away. I mean, all this stuff will augment PCs, not replace them. And as for PCs being powerful enough for the applications available today, also BS. Why? Simple -- every three years or so people have to have a new PC on their desk. It's like cars. They just get old, obsolete. Hell, they make cars much better today than they did 10 years ago; people still buy new ones just as often. (Never mind international expansion!) PCs forever, baby! (And that's not to say Palms forever, too! Heck, they sold 1 million of them already, and did a single one of them get sold instead of a PC? I think not!)>>