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To: MSB who wrote (14381)	12/21/1997 11:29:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You own Compaq stock? Wow, you do live dangerously, MSB!!!! I have a very cool Compaq computer, and it works fairly well, but the sleepy moon button that puts it in neutral broke almost right away, and it is now covered by a little red fuzzy creature with antennae because I cannot stand to just look an empty hole all the time after spending so much money on it. And the mouse utterly died after two weeks. Compaq statistically has one of the WORST customer service satisfaction ratings in the business. It is almost impossible to get any help at all. That is not why I wouldn't buy any though, and incidentally I did own Compaq stock at one time (before I stopped listening to my broker and went on a wild and ultimately almost heart-stopping adventure through fraud and loss--a great learning experience). What concerns me more are all the articles I've read arguing that computers are just becoming commodity items, that the profit margins will stay very low because of competition, that the companies that sell and ship to order will prevail, and most importantly, that if the situation in Asia continues to deteriorate, as I believe it might, things are going to be pretty slow for the forseeable future. Here's an article on Asia's ills that I found interesting, from "The San Francisco Chronicle": sfgate.com