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To: rudedog who wrote (28504)	7/5/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Franz and Rudedog: About advertising. The UK's leading Sunday broadsheet, The Sunday Times, had a double page coloured COMPAQ spread today. Apart from the impact of the size and the name I thought it fairly nondescript: in fact, I could not see the point of it at all. I would guess that it was a brand-reinforcing ad, implying that COMPAQ was now a great big company. Would this be a product of the old or the new team?. In the past, COMPAQ has had some nice creative ads in the broadsheets in the UK - one in particular which showed a one page photograph of Oxford Circus and on every shop, bus, hoarding board, or other surface, the real life lettering had been changed to read "Compaq" . Just a Sunday musing ! Victor

To: rudedog who wrote (28504)	7/5/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: Merlo	Respond to of 97611

This is very good news to me I will add more shares tomorrow. CPQ is a jewel at these prices. A real turn around story. People are willing to pay hundreds of dollars per share on some crazy Internet stocks so why not CPQ?

To: rudedog who wrote (28504)	7/5/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Dog - I always like your responses because it makes me hang on to my stock. Good to hear something is going to happen. Question: You seem to have a good feel for the hardware and I am facing some desktop server upgrades so maybe you can help me. I don't want to buy into a server configuration that is on the outs. I read in a lot of the magazines about "fibre channel" and how it is going (maybe is) replacing SCSI, etc as a method of connecting hard drives, etc. Does CPQ/DEC have any available "system" based on fibre channel for desktop servers? I really don't know the topic and maybe you can make a general statement and point me in the right direction. I envision a fibre channel as a LAN loop with all your devices (scanners, tape drives, Disks, etc) as nodes. The speed, I guess, beats 100 baseT and the available nodes beat SCSI-3 limitations? Thanks, Franz