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To: Return to Sender who wrote (57177)	8/13/2012 12:23:08 PM
From: Debt Free	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95608

Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims on Behalf of Investors of FSI International, Inc. finance.yahoo.com anyone want to start a rumor of a bidding war for FSII?

To: Return to Sender who wrote (57177)	8/13/2012 4:32:42 PM
From: Donald Wennerstrom	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95608

RtS, Sam, Let's look at some history. FSII is going away, but at one time in the early nineties it was a high flyer. It was essentially at the top of my list as a way to invest in the semis and make lots of money. For awhile the stock did very well but after reaching its peak in the latter part of 1995, the stock, with some up and down cycles has been drifting downward to hit a bottom in late 2008/09, a period of about 13 years. I was watching the stock in the early nineties, but I did not join Silicon Investor until the middle of 1996. At the time I joined, FSII was one of 40 stocks followed by SI. For quite a long time thereafter I posted mostly on the FSII thread. It was where I "picked up" the list and began to keep some statistics on the 40 stocks. I show a list of those stocks later, but first, lets look at a long term chart of FSII. The stock was selling in the 1 dollar range in 1990 and went to about 6 dollars a share in early 1994. That was about a 500 percent gain. Then from 6 dollars a share the stock went to its all time peak in late 95 of about 36 dollars a share, another 500 percent from 6 dollars. Overall from 1990 to 1995, the stock was up 3500 percent. Then the downhill trend started to a lower low in 2008/09 of about 0.25 cents per share. Overall, this is a loss of about 99.3 percent. However, during this time, FSII did not leave the initial list of 40 semi stocks. Now with the buyout price stated at 6.20, that is a gain of about 2380 percent over the past 4 years. The following is a list of the stocks followed by SI in the middle of 1997, about I year after I joined SI. The reference is at: Message 1706040 The tabular listing shows in yellow those stocks that have survived from 1997 to the present which I have simply named Group stocks. The rest of those stocks are gone or merged together.