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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (79016)	3/2/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Piotr Koziol	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

This is from TVeyes, has Compaq started to show iPaq commercials on TV? Can anybody decipher the following TV text, it happened around the time of CPQ's rally this afternoon: MSNBC 3/2/00 - 2:53:31 PM .....There's opportunity all around the globe. Overseas markets can be rewarding. But there are always risks. You need a guide who knows the way. If you want to invest in foreign markets, you have to be in those markets. An d prudential is there. We think our global research capability gives our investors a real advantage. Find prudential's investment know-how all around the world... And right around the corner. At avis, we take a novel approach to service. We give it. I'm at a pay phone and i'm not from here. I took my shopping bags and when i turned around to grab the purse, the cab was gone. No, no, i didn't. I'm very calm, sir. I just left my wallet with $1,000 in the cab. It's all my cash. I have nothing. [Cars honking] excuse me? No, no, i didn't get the driver's name. You don't understand, i'm on vacation. Everything is in that cab. A computer? That is so last century. Introducing ipaq. The first internet device for business. A kinder, simpler device with the intel pentium iii processor that taps into the power of the internet and meets all your business computing needs. The age of simple internet computing has arrived. iPaq from compaq Call the local hearing-impaired center and ask them to connect you to the number on your screen. You want to throw it away. >> Probably not. You just taped your 1,000th show recently? >> Right. >> So you've been doing five years? >> Five >> can you imagine this for as as say a johnny carson did it for 30 years? >> Well, i think that's a record that will never be broken, obviously. Johnny was one of a kind. I would be well in my 70s if that was few more years that's fine. >> But the you keep, though, you taken a personal vacation in >> no. .....