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To: stockman_scott who wrote (170078)	7/2/2002 2:40:05 PM
From: Dorine Essey	Respond to of 176387

OT.Scott, Herb will be gone 1 year on July 4. How time goes by. Dorine

To: stockman_scott who wrote (170078)	7/3/2002 5:50:42 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 176387

Sheez Scott, all along I thought you were long a term buy and hold Investor like Billy Harmond of "new economy" fame.=) at the moment I really like a cash cushion....recent position trades have included ARBA, BEAS, BRCD, DELL, EMLX, MDCI, MEDM, QLGC, RBAK, RITA, RSTN, SEBL, & VRTS Ps Dells ytd 9 1/2% decline looks terrific to me...considering Arba is down 50% >> Austin, Texas, July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Dell Computer Corp., the world's biggest direct seller of personal computers, is putting kiosks in shopping centers in 20 U.S. cities to demonstrate PCs as the company seeks to boost sales to consumers. The kiosks will have about five samples of Dell computers and accessories such as printers and scanners, spokesman Bob Kaufman said. Dell, which doesn't sell in stores, is testing the kiosks to see if they can increase sales, particularly in the back-to-school and holiday seasons, he said. The company, which gets about 85 percent of its business from corporations, schools and governments, has increased sales to consumers even as other PC makers stumble. The company has used advertisements featuring a young pitchman named Steven and promoted products on the QVC home shopping channel. Consumer sales rose 26 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier. Dell decided to put more kiosks in shopping centers after two tested successfully last year, Kaufman said. The kiosks won't have any inventory to sell. To buy a computer, customers must place an order over the Internet, which they can do at the kiosk, Kaufman said. Investors have praised the Austin, Texas-based company's build-to-order model for reducing costs. Shares of Dell rose 14 cents to $24.68 and have declined 9.2 percent this year. Rival Gateway Inc. this year added inventory to its company- run stores, saying customers complained when they couldn't buy products immediately. Gateway has reduced the number of stores to 277 from about 350 worldwide as sales have slumped. One Dell kiosk is open in Austin and two more will open soon in Houston and Dallas. Eventually, 20 cities will have them, Kaufman said. Dell's decision to use kiosks was reported earlier today by the Associated Press.