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To: Pink Minion who wrote (45651)4/20/2001 10:15:19 AM
From: Berk  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
Not really. I've been in the computer hardware business on and off for twenty years and write downs of "old" product are commonplace. It is just conservative accounting.



To: Pink Minion who wrote (45651)4/20/2001 12:48:59 PM
From: Gottfried  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
ex-Dilbert, > It called accounting fraud.< If it is, don't they pay rewards to whistle blowers?

Gottfried