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To: chaz who wrote (6478)	9/17/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

*Triple Witching Friday!!!* Not too frightening so far, except to the downside players. Globex Flash shows ndx December contracts up 29.5 Premarket bid on Q is 182 uf

To: chaz who wrote (6478)	9/17/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Hi, all: Visor had a segment on CNBC yesterday. According to the talking heads it's going to give the Palm Pilot a run for its money. As its price point is lower, and it'll have add-on modules that turn it into a cell phone, game machine, and PDA etc. However, the only game it has so far is a "Tiger Woods" golf game, and not all the modules are available. (They didn't say what type of system the cell phone would use.) The feeling was the 3Com may have gotten rid of Palm Pilot just in time. The overriding comment was "Way Cool." Fred

To: chaz who wrote (6478)	9/17/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Chaz, I've read some stuff about Handspring too. They're getting a lot of press because of the news about the PalmPilot spin off. It seems that no one can talk about that without bringing up Handspring. My thinking is that we might be able to watch or participate in a gorilla game of hand-held operating systems. (Does that phrase, operating system, remind you of a company that's done OK? :) Apparently Sun's OS for their Palm has 80% of the market and Windows CE has the other 20%. As you're probably aware, Handspring uses Sun's OS. When PalmPilot gets spun off, I think it's a gorilla game well worth watching. --Mike Buckley