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To: WBC who wrote (71389)	10/12/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 176387

Good post, WDC,<<< Our IS personnel no longer waste countless hours, ordering, picking up and replacing power supplies, hard drives, SIMMs and all the other "2nd bin" parts that define whitebox clones.>>> This reminds me of those bags containing 100's of resistors, capacitors, chips, that one could buy at the surplus electronic stores at penneys on the dollar. Did not quite meet the specs or were surplus to a company that overbought and no returns allowed.Worked OK but not good enough to put in an F-15, for example. Can still get those I suppose, so I wonder what Intc does with chips that function but dont meet specs ?. Could sell them to disadvantaged countries I suppose. The cheap computer bit has been around always, 2 years ago at First Saturday in Dallas(parking lot sales) I could buy a 386 or 486 computer for about $35 to $50 (used but working,no color monitor tho)haha. Todays ads have 100 mb hard drives for $9.95 (junk, pure useless junk to a modern company) Sig

To: WBC who wrote (71389)	10/12/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 176387

WBC, I agree with the answer, but wasn't sure how many companies got 'sucked' into that vacuum before the lesson was learned! Regards, Ken

To: WBC who wrote (71389)	10/12/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: jbn3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

New Facility Talked to Mr. R. Williams in DELL Investor Relations this morning, and asked about the target date for the new factory to be on line. Of course, he was unable to name a specific day, but it is scheduled to come on line in the "November time frame". This is the Parmer Lane facility which will be producing primarily Servers and Work Stations. (Remember when we looked at it in July, freeus? It is nearing completion now!) Also talked to M. Hoody, whose voice mail announces that next earnings date will be 12 NOV, after market close, which I have posted to the "earnings" column of this thread. DELLish, 3.