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To: Zhivago who wrote (32966)3/7/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Phillip Crone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 176387
 
To all: this is very old news but I was speaking this morning about the national distributors for Compaq and IBM, well I was reviewing the thread for Tech Data and here was a relevant comment from last Oct that I wanted to share with all of you:

To: Ross Brown (259 )
From: Judy Muldawer Friday, Oct 3 1997 8:05AM EST
Reply # of 278

My understanding is that TECD is readying itself to build custom computers for IBM to compete with the likes of the DELL market. If folks want a custom built system from IBM, TECD will build it at their facility. This takes money to get started, hence the secondary offering.

Still holding.