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To: Night Writer who wrote (32198)	9/2/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

NW..... CPQ closed at 27 7/8 yesterday and traded 13 million shares today, all at or above 30. I see that as fairly positive, even though it woulda been nice to se it close a little higher than 30 1/8. El

To: Night Writer who wrote (32198)	9/2/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: Kelvin D. Nakamichi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Hey you're good. I bought the Sept 40 but actually paid 15/16 for them (10 contracts). A pittance to pay for insurance in this crazy market. It was kinda wierd thinking I'm long a stock with negative earnings and short a stock with positive earnings (trailing of course) but as we all know here, CPQ has a lot more going for it at the moment than GTW (not to mention analyst upgrades etc). Too bad CPQ didn't spin off part of AltaVista before last week. Kelvin