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To: Mike Gordon who wrote (21989)	3/16/1998 7:21:00 AM
From: BeachBum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

<The purchase of Radio Shack by CPQ is interesting.> Mike, I don't know where people are getting this idea, Compaq is taking over IBM as the sole PC that Radio Shack sales. In addition they are expanding the space this will be done in. As was mentioned in a meeting this is done in response to a cell phone vendor which does the same thing at Radio Shack ( I forget which one )and had proved very profitable to that vendor. Compaq is just going to do it in a larger area of the store. " Store within a store." Back to lurking, Bill