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To: Roads End who wrote (24965)	4/25/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve.... everyone on the Yahoo board is quite concerned that the possible blocking/postponing of Windows '98 will have a negative effect on the boxmakers. Any thoughts? El cnnfn.com

To: Roads End who wrote (24965)	4/25/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: Jack T. Pearson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

"I can assure you the extra cash in DELL will not be used to buy back their shares simply because it would not be prudent." Wrong. Dell does buy back shares.

To: Roads End who wrote (24965)	4/25/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Riechers---Vickers Summary of Direct Insider Transactions for COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP Current Month Previous Month Last 6 Months Shares Purchased 0ÿ 10,000ÿ 11,000ÿ Shares Sold 608,338ÿ 97,086ÿ 1,168,006ÿ Total Shares Held 7,052,364ÿ 2,070,288ÿ N/A Market Value Purchased 0ÿ 320,625ÿ 352,687ÿ Market Value Sold 19,504,838ÿ 3,112,820ÿ 37,449,189ÿ Total Market Value Held 226,116,424ÿ66,378,612ÿ N/A As seen above the 100 million in equity shares has been set aside for the employee plan that RUDEDOG had describe in his comprehensive post .Hope the numbers are more understandable . As to the cash issue for CPQ : 1) 4.8 billion in cash for DEC 2) 3 billion to purchase 100 million shares back ( if they do this at all ) 3) 1 billion to be use for write off purposes for the DEC merger TOTAL = 8.8 BILION LEAVES about 2-3 billion for day to day BEST WISHES BILL