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To: JDN who wrote (67184)	9/1/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

JDN "a little bit of BAD MANAGEMENT can bring down a previous" Seems it was a lot more than "a little bit" and "previous" is a key word!

To: JDN who wrote (67184)	9/1/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Respond to of 97611

Compaq Announces 50 Percent Options Rebate with Purchase of Compaq Professional Workstations HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1999--Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ - news) today announced a special promotion offering U.S. customers cash back for options purchased with any Compaq Professional Workstation. Customers in the U.S. buying a Compaq Professional Workstation are eligible to receive a 50 percent rebate on all eligible workstation options with their purchase, up to a maximum of $250 per workstation.(1) Eligible options include processors, memory, graphics boards, hard drives, tape drives, input devices (mice and trackballs), speaker systems, network cards, modems, uninterruptible power supplies, removable media (such as tape cartridges) and various rack options. ''Through our partnerships with industry leading vendors, Compaq Professional Workstation customers have a wide variety of best-in-breed options to choose from,'' said David Parsons, Director of North America Workstations Marketing, Compaq Computer Corp. ''By offering our customers this rebate we are ensuring that Compaq Professional Workstation customers get the high-performance peripherals they need at an extremely affordable price.'' For more details on the options promotion, please visit Compaq's Web site at: compaq.com. Company Background: Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is a global information technology company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. For more corporate information, see: compaq.com. Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. (1) Compaq will rebate 50 percent of the price of options, excluding monitors and XP1000 products, up to $250. Contact: Compaq Computer Corporation Jim Cortese 281-927-8791 jim.cortese@compaq.com or Shandwick International David Bloodsworth 617-536-0470 dbloodsworth@shandwick.com