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To: BUYandHOLD who wrote (161970)	10/10/2000 6:02:25 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

How analysts viewed the PC market in Oct 1996 with Dell at 2 1/2 sh: Sound familiar?? Message 428086 <<<<Major U.S. electronics retailers said Thursday that home PC sales were weak in October and analysts see few signs of a recovery without lower prices or a technology breakthrough.>>> <<<< "Everybody seems to have stopped buying PCs all of a sudden," said Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Terrence McEvoy.>>>> <<< "The business today is less first-time buyers and more repeat customers," said Robertson Stephens analyst Edward Lee. The pool of entry-level buyers is contracting and the PC industry increasingly relies on second- or third-time buyers, who are smarter than novices. Veterans look for vendors offering lots of peripherals, such as Compusa Inc , or discount mail-order houses, such as Dell Computer Corp and Gateway 2000 Inc , analysts said. >>> And Pat said: I like this part the best:"Defying the downdraft are mail-order computer vendors and sellers of computers to business, which are both thriving." Sig