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To: Sector Investor who wrote (29285)	1/4/1998 11:47:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

PC Stocks Rise With New Outlook The Motley Fool - January 02, 1998 17:02 CPQ AAPL GTW VST CPU QNTM SEG LSI MU AMD INTC V%MFOOL P%TMF January 2, 1998/FOOLWIRE/ -- PC-related stocks got a boost today as opinion swings toward the belief that the Christmas season was a good one for PC sales and that even if the PC industry grows at the low end of its historical 15-20% range in 1998, things won't be as bad as the bears have foretold. Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) gained $3 to $59 1/2, Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL) added $3 1/8 to $16 1/4, Gateway 2000 (NYSE: GTW) tacked on $1 7/16 to $34 3/16, and computer integrator Vanstar (NYSE: VST) rose $1 3/8 to $12 11/16 following an excellent sales report last week from computer superstore and now box-maker CompUSA (NYSE: CPU). Disk drive stocks gained more ground as they try to pick themselves up from the floor. Quantum (Nasdaq: QNTM) jumped $2 11/16 to $22 3/4, Seagate Technology (NYSE: SEG) rose $1 3/8 to $20 5/8, and Western Digital was up $1 1/4 to $17 1/4. DRAM maker Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) picked up $1 15/16 to $27 7/8; LSI Logic (NYSE: LSI) moved $1 7/8 higher to $21 1/2; Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) bounced $1 9/16 to $19 5/16; and Intel (NYSE: INTC) advanced $2 3/8 to $72 5/8.