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Technology Stocks : Thrustmaster (NASDAQ:TMSR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (1082)	1/6/1998 4:05:00 PM
From: esecurities(tm)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2443

NEC USB order(s) revisited ref/ Q1 USB Wheel/GamePad shipments. "...HILLSBORO, Ore., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- ThrustMaster, Inc. (Nasdaq: TMSR - news) a leading manufacturer of game controllers for PC-based entertainment announced its initial shipment of USB joysticks to NEC, an international manufacturer of computer, communications and semiconductor products, for private label distribution with the NEC PowerPlayer personal computers. ThrustMaster's USB joystick is one of the first joysticks to support the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology. Modeled after the grip found in the F-4 Phantom fighter jet, the ThrustMaster USB joystick offers a patented 4-way hat switch, three beveled buttons and a quick action trigger...ThrustMaster also expects to ship a USB game pad and a USB racing wheel to NEC in the first quarter of 1998..." &copy 1997 biz.yahoo.com [More] new shipment(s) of Grand Prix I [already] to CompUSA [chain], [Q4]? Top Gun units also in late Q4 [huge]. We have a feeling TMSR is blowing by the competition in total PC peripherals shipped, 1997, in wheels (Grand PrixI, T2, NASCAR Pro, Formula 1) [and flightsticks] due to Top Gun...Rage 3D currently is taking GamePad share...f-f goes to MS SideWinder...and maybe not for long... Potentially key events/defining 1998 moments pending: I. If/Whomever acquires Saitek/CH and quickly releases a [TMSR] competing Flight System and II. The [timely] release/success of the TMSR force feedback MotorSport GT III. A [timely] TMSR f-f Flighstick... IV. DirectConnect Standard?...suggesting TMSR has significantly more upside than downside, all things being equal...TMSRs only downside is its sustained inability to convince the street it is everything it is...so why didn't TMSR merely raise $20 million from Sierra (NYSE:CD) with a Board seat, or Fujitsu, or NEC..., in Sep-Oct '97 when it was trading at $19 and Wedbush issued a BUY (at $16)? or still do it Q1 '98 at $25+ post Q4/fy '97 earnings release...would save IB fees ref/<$.04> hit to eps, and shares would essentially represent a long-term non-float investment...