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To: freeus who wrote (7128)	10/21/1997 12:32:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 22053

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--Oct. 20, 1997--Silicon Investor Inc. (www.techstocks.com) has grown to become the largest discussion community on the Web, with more than 70,000 messages posted per week and more than 2.5 million messages posted to date. Silicon Investor has achieved a scale and sophistication not thought possible with Microsoft NT. SI's server farm, consisting primarily of dual Pentium Pros, handles more than 4 million page views per weekday and more than 100 million page views per month. All 2.5 million messages in the SI database are archived and fully searchable. Investors can use the SI search engine to locate information on widely followed stocks, Compaq (CPQ), Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), and Cisco (CSCO), four bellwether companies followed and discussed by thousands of members at Silicon Investor. There are currently 3,000 active discussion subjects. Some examples of Web companies investors can search on are Yahoo (YHOO), Excite (XCIT), Lycos (LCOS), Infoseek (SEEK), CNET (CNWK), Amazon.com (AMZN), ONSALE (ONSL), Netscape (NSCP), and E*Trade (EGRP). The site is entirely dynamic, with every page created "on the fly" from a Microsoft SQL Server database. Said Brad Dryer, co-founder, "Growth continues to be explosive. We are gearing up to serve 8-10 million page views per day in January, the most important month of the year for tech stocks." Memberships More than 100,000 individual investors visit Silicon Investor each day to discuss their stock holdings and to discover new investment opportunities. SI has become a virtual Wall Street where information is freely shared by its members for the benefit of many. Advertising Opportunities Silicon Investor offers advertisers a unique forum to reach one of the wealthiest sets of consumer demographics on the Web. With its proprietary ad server, SI allows advertisers to watch in real-time the results of impressions and click-throughs. Charter advertising members who pay a $10,000 membership fee before Nov. 30 will be able to run banner ads on the site at a 5 CPM for all of 1998. 1,000,000 impressions are included with the initial fee. About Silicon Investor Silicon Investor (http://www.techstocks.com) is one of the top three trafficked financial Web sites and is one of the Top 100 Web sites according to PC Magazine Online. Institutional Investor selected Brad and Jeff Dryer, co-founders of Silicon Investor, for their Top 20 September 1997 Cover story titled "The on-line elite: How Microsoft and 19 other Web pioneers are revolutionizing finance." CONTACT: Silicon Investor Inc. Jill McKinney, 408/243-8638 jill@techstocks.com

To: freeus who wrote (7128)	10/21/1997 12:48:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 22053

Price free fall hits high end news.com Micron's new Millennia XKU 233 comes with a 233-MHz Pentium II, 32MB of memory, a 2.1GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 17-monitor, all for $1,999. The configuration closely mirrors Gateway's G6-233, which was discounted to $1,999 earlier this month. A review of online computer resellers shows that similarly configured systems from other vendors are selling for approximately $2,300 and up. NEC's new configuration for its Direction PC features a 300-MHz Pentium II, 32MB of SDRAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 15-inch monitor. The sale price of $2,199 is currently far below the price of similarly configured systems from other vendors, which are selling for $2,800 and above. All I can say is wow, these PC makers sure know how to tempt a person. CPQ is doing all the right things, evidently. I think GTW is coming around and will be improving. I should buy some, but I don't really like to with the take-over rumor premium in the stock. A lot of stocks I'm in came down significantly off their daily high today, but I think all were at least positive on the day. I think nervousness prior to IBM and MSFT reporting caused a lot of people to have second thoughts of holding until those two factors became known. Tomorrow should be a fairly normal average up day (is that possible in the stock market? -g-). We'll see. Please do e-mail me.