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To: JMD who wrote (13476)	8/7/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: marginmike	Respond to of 152472

generally I use a trojan condom for surge purtection, its only a few cents! Today was a little bit of a buzz kill. I left work at 12 Q was hanging around 61 only to check price is down. I would have thought it segnifigent if we could have closed over 61 where there was good support. At least we know the new trading range! Hey Jon or anyone when is cutoff for ex-div of spinco? P.S. sorry for the mensroom humor ladies, but I couldnt resist

To: JMD who wrote (13476)	8/7/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Surfer, just one more thought on the UPS: Another factor to consider is capacity. They range from 200 watts or so up to how-much-money-have-you-got? Once you get beyond the point of the actual wattage of your equipment, the difference is how usually long the system will continue to run on the batteries. If you are in a location where power outages are infrequent and normally short-lived, then add up all the wattages of your system and get the next size larger UPS. If you are living at the end of a lengthy extension cord, ie somewhere outages are common and long lasting, you may want to get one that will give you more time and will also talk to your computer and shut it down in an orderly fashion when necessary. This involves putting an ISA card in the computer and running a cable from it to the UPS plus some software. Assuming there is a free slot, this is not such a big deal even for a techno-wonk-star such as yourself. If I've gone on in too much detail, please make allowances, because I so rarely get to discuss something in this forum that I actually understand.

To: JMD who wrote (13476)	8/8/1998 4:46:00 AM
From: John Cuthbertson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Mqurice and Surfer Mike, Further details on the Sprint deal: Per minute price above the 100 free minutes is 35 cents. No contract required. I guess I should mention that this deal is a "limited time offer," I believe you normally get only 20 free minutes for this monthly rate. (The deal is available through August 9th.) The phone cost $99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. The QCP-1920 is single-mode, so no roaming to the analog system. As I said, I didn't care so much about this, so decided to go with a less expensive, PCS-only phone. If my wife ever tries to make a call in an area without PCS coverage, though, I may hear about the demerits of this decision ;-) The availability of roaming depends just on the phone, you can get the same rate plan with a dual-mode phone to allow roaming to analog. Maurice, in your earlier post you wrote: " The global standard which can be established is the lower bit rate system promulgated by Qualcomm Incorporated and others." You really mean lower chip rate, right? I don't think the achievable data rate planned for cdma2000 will be any slower than for W-CDMA. Also: "Maybe the enemy is 'us' rather than 'me'." Have you ever heard of the comic strip 'Pogo'? A quotation from that strip became a familiar bit of American pop culture a couple of decades ago: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!"