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To: rupert1 who wrote (79257)	3/9/2000 7:52:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

COMPAQ and SI Part 2 Monday, pumped up by the scalding hot coffee from the MacDonald's breakfast picked on the way to work, they switch on their desktops and press the secret COMPAQ direct internet access button. That simple acton is the ritual which starts their week. The button creates a cloud of lavendar scented purple smoke. As the smoke clears, the default Home Page becomes visible on 12,000 COMPAQ screens "SI Investor - COMPAQ". Without even sitting, and still in their outside clothes, they begin to scroll hungrily searching out certain names. There's one - "Captain Jack" balefully blinking at them - daring them to click the button. "Go on", it seems to say "open the Pandora's box!" For a minute they hesitate but then the Sunday words of Jerry Faldwell or Pat Robertson come back to embolden them - well not so much the words, as that lovely warm feeling they get when the choir sings. And so they click "Captain Jack" in dread fascination. It is the first cut of a thousand cuts they will receive that week. There it is the same simple logic, stated with the same elegant eloquence. They have heard it a thousand times before but it never fails to sting. "COMPAQ is a POS". They had promised themselves only one peek at SI but already they feel the craving like a ravenous beast inside of them. In a crescendo of angst they search out all of Captain Jack's weekend postings. There are 473 of them. Like beachcombers turning over rocks in a search for treasure they examine each one. They are all the same. "COMPAQ is a POS". The sheer zen-like repetition becomes a mantra, they feel their newfound confidence slipping away - panic appears on the horizon. But they have been through this before - and they know the antidote. They click on the "People Marker". Shall it be "rudedog" or "PCSS" maybe "Salah Mohammed"? They chose "rudedog" - and there it is. The reassuring references to COMPAQ's tribal myths, the ancestor worship, the erudite explanation of high-tech's cosmology and COMPAQ's central place in its planetary system, the superiority of COMPAQ's morality over DELL's, the recitation of all the technological achievements of COMPAQ. More give me more! They click on "Salah Mohammed" - oh joy - there are all the links explaining what Capellas really meant to say before he said what he said. The appetite grows. Here is "PCSS". He says that given the big 1/16th move up on Friday, he expects the share price will more than double today.