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To: Rob L. who wrote (6963)	12/8/1997 3:23:00 PM
From: john jansen	Respond to of 31646

Ron when stock doubles u wont get any of mine.

To: Rob L. who wrote (6963)	12/8/1997 3:24:00 PM
From: TokyoMex	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

<<the PP was done under the table (that is without shareholders actually knowing about it except for a few on this thread which also makes me suspicious>> Huh ? PP is what it stands for a Private Placement ! A company dont have to announce it after the fact ! Few people ? It must be me since I broke the news. I heard it from the shorts ! When I called the co they did not deny it but rather explained as to why they needed the money. Karl also called and as a professional investor it made sense to him and he explained it to us. No revenue ? How about 40 mill USD so far at a growth of 115% per annum for last 3 years without y2K ? Hello !!!! Can you read plain English or do I have to give you a lesson as an etranger ?? What did CEO say at the last conf call ?? The y2K revenue will show up from the 2nd qt much earlier than expected, 3rd qt ! Also last qt if the co did not have to allocate the manpower to y2k , we would have had a kick !@# qt with +++ eps !!! This bloody stock gained 600% in 6 mos, and has been consolidating and compacting solid, with tight spread for over a month now above the 50 DMA ! Believe me it will pounce on your senses very shortly and you will be too slow to catch the fireball leaping from your hand ! Joe TPRO

To: Rob L. who wrote (6963)	12/8/1997 5:48:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

RobL, let me guess... You write: " this big cloud of mystery over the Y2k problem in general. Sure people working in the Y2K sector know about it, but the general public really is not overly concerned." You haven't really done much reading about y2k in general and about y2k investing in particular, have you? There is no big cloud of mystery about y2k, such a statement may have been more appropriate in 1995 when word first started leaking out through the general media. Currently, there is a consensus that it IS a problem, that it will COST good money, and that the majority of the world HASN't started adressing it yet. The only mystery is the total cost, but the reason it is a msytery is because everybody keeps raising their y2k budget every year. Bank of Boston thought $1/LOC was good, they recently raised it to $4/LOC. Sabre Group/American Airlines tripled their budget, which started out at 10 million. The top ten banks in the country, at last count (last Spring) had roughly one billion in cost estimates. What's you basis for concluding that the general public isn't concerned? How is this evidence for / against y2k? This of course assumes that mass opinion has some relationship to reality, I know for a fact that the general public wasn't too concerned about an oil cartel forming in the early 70's either. BUt as far as public opinion goes, I posted a recent study of people from a juror pool. 7 out of 10 were at least aware of the problem. I think you should go to CK Houston's Y2000 & Society site here on SI and do some reading. DocStone

To: Rob L. who wrote (6963)	12/8/1997 6:37:00 PM
From: Bonzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Rob if you look at tpro in the same light as "other y2k" stocks then quite frankly, and imo, you have not done much in the way of DD. Again, and I repeat, this is not one of those y2k stocks, although I am sure there are a few "quality" y2k companies (probably the ones that Doc is holding). We are talking "Embedded Controllers" here. Mostly found in factory automation and process control systems. Its the language of "MicroCode" not Cobol and other languages running legacy systems "other y2k" companies have targeted. There is little or no announced competition - certainly no one with a toolset based methodology. The problem is real. The contracts are real. The alliances and partnerships are real. And beginning with this Q's earnings release the bottom line will reflect that reality. The problem with tpro, and I have said this before, is the truly uninformed, can not differentiate tpro's specialty niche from the other "garden variety" y2k stocks. I wish that we would stop referring to tpro as a y2k play. Its a Systems Integrator with a "specialized" y2k business component.