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To: Todd D. Wiener who wrote (3319)	2/7/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

Pax for Mac-- Maybe it's been noted on the Fool already but I just got my copy of MacAddict and there is an ad for Pax Imperia II with the banner "Now available for Macintosh." It's not in stores, but I checked the paximperia.com website and sure enough, it is now listed as available on Jan. 26. I'm excited about it because I think it will be successful. Not only was the original game Mac-only and a big hit, but there is a lot less competition for the gamer's dollar on the Mac side. Recent PC ports such as Civ II, Quake, and Duke Nukem have been selling about 50,000 copies. In a sense one could argue that selling on the Mac platform is like selling Gameboy titles--less competition and real money to be made. Btw, for anyone who wants to understand any biases behind my posts, 2/3 of my shares have the same time horizon as Wildman's, ie I'm hanging on until the fundamentals change. But the other 1/3 I hold have a horizon more Bleeker-like. They are my trading position and lead to my occasional short-term comments on this board. Marc

To: Todd D. Wiener who wrote (3319)	2/8/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: AreWeThereYet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

Todd, I guess we view "support" differently. The reason why I said THQI has been supported by its 50 DMA nicely because since late April after THQI broke its 50DMA, the price never fell below +/-10% of its 50DMA line. The worst is less than -8% of 50DMA occured in mid-August. I interpreted this as THQI becomes very attractive when it is around 50DMA and will not fall much further. The 50DMA also supported well in Oct 28 crash. OTOH, THQI had said goodbye to 100DMA since Auguest and never look back. Hopefully the double bottom will not make it test the 100DMA again. Long term I am very bullish but I still don't like to see it testing 50 or 100DMA in short term, especially I don't have much room left in my margin account. aC

To: Todd D. Wiener who wrote (3319)	2/12/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Robert G. Harrell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14266

Todd, --SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC TA QUESTION-- Since the current discussion seems to be revolving around spotting a top, I wanted to ask you and any other TA users about an unusual event with one of my Y2K stocks. I own three stocks in the Y2K sector, Ciber (CBR), Computer Horizons (CHRZ) and Computer Task Group (TSK). They have all moved up sharply since early Nov. and are at very high P/E's. They have apparently been on again off again favorites of momentum investors and pull back sharply when the herd decides to rotate to a new sector. I'm wondering if this is beginning to happen again but I'm afraid to jump out on this assumption because the Y2K problem has once again become high profile and this time serious revenues are beginning to show up on the bottom lines of the major players. All three have successively smaller and smaller price swings as they move up which is what I think would be called a narrowing upward channel which is good isn't it? Anyway, yesterday Ciber traded about four times normal volume and spiked up about 5 points intraday closing unchanged from the previous day's new high. The other two closed down some from previous day new highs. Would this action, especially Ciber's, be any kind of classic signal for a top? Thanks in advance, Bob