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To: joe who wrote (19213)	7/15/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Hi good day everybody ! Just checked into SI so didn't read other notes. coms is breaking thro' $30 ! Good sign. Mang

To: joe who wrote (19213)	7/15/1998 4:03:00 PM
From: ac9	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 45548

This is my first post to the group... I am a young COMS investor (long) and also owner of a Palm Pilot. I don't know how much of COMS' revenue comes from the Pilot, but I think this is a very important growth sector. I bought my pilot from the university computer store and have been really happy with it. I interned with Price Waterhouse (management consulting) last summer and a lot of their full time employees were beginning to use it professionally and its linkage with Lotus Notes ( a third party software vendor was wrote the apps) was ideal for the coordination of their scheduling. I think 3rd party vendors will be increasingly more important to palm's success and that's been a big reason the departure of donna d was non-threatening. For plam to continue to grow, it must link into more sophistocated wireless technology. The wireless phone has begun to grow from being a business need to a possible wireline replacement and as costs go down, you will see a decrease in use of traditional wireline use for wireless technology. It is already cannibalizing paging because of its 2-way features. COMS should not be ignorant of wireless growth otherwise the pilot will be outdated soon enough. Motorola today bought Starfish softwares in search of more sophistocated technology for paging services. 9er

To: joe who wrote (19213)	7/16/1998 1:15:00 AM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

There's all kinds of wireless and wired stuff being developed for the Pilot. To be honest I haven't really seriously looked at any of them since my laptop travels with me. Just go to any news site that let's you scan COMS press release history and you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know about available products. THe same is true of the 3Com web site. The code you referred to was the Pilot x2 Broker, developed by Paul Blakeslee. It was a very funny spoof on USRX buy and sell signals based on several thread regulars. I could probably dig up a copy of the PRC file if any Pilot owners are interested in a good laugh. It goes back to when Jeff Forrest, Ole 49'r and Janice Shell were active thread participants (you know, the good old days when our USRX stock was worth over twice what it's worth now). I'm smiling just thinking about it - the program, that is. <g>