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Technology Stocks : Data Race (NASDAQ: RACE) NEWS! 2 voice/data/fax: ONE LINE! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PammyLee who wrote (30775)	2/5/1999 1:05:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

Engineers do tend to make friends with each other. Long before I had even heard of Data Race I made friends with a guy that worked at (then) Cardinal and later went to Zoom. He turned me on to a couple of guys at S3 and one of them knew an old classmate of mine that was working at Intel and it turned out another one I went to school with was working there too. I have personal friends that have retired from Southwestern Bell but they still have connections, same goes for AT&T. The Lucent plant here in OKC is the largest producer of 5ESS switches and they were also making that "Virtual Phone" but all they have is a bunch of boxes of them gathering dust due to Lucent's voluntary withdrawal of the product, probably to avoid the injunctions. It seems that one of their employees has worked for me for over 5 years in his spare time. I made connections with a VP of Diamond Multimedia mainly because of all my nasty exchanges with Jonathan Quick. Seagate? They have three huge facilities here and not only do a few personal friends work there but I made a few when I did some temporary work for MPI before Seagate bought them out. WorldCom? The retired Senior Engineer of SW Bell (now SBC) is teaching courses to several of their engineers every semester, seems he only lives two houses up from me and I've known him for over 30 years, same goes for my AT&T neighbor that is inbetween his house and mine. I've mowed these people's yards when I was young, fixed their broken lamps, TVs, lawnmowers, cars, etc. for what seems to be a lifetime. I assume you know that I have a continuing education philosopy - not many people would pay good money to get ASE certification on 4 of 8 categories as well as a permanent EPA license to buy Freon when they really had no reason to use it. I did enjoy those two four hour testing nights though. Cisco? I'm always invited to their seminars and I usually go due to the full breakfast they offer - it's killer and you can't help but make friends. Compaq? Another couple of classmates there. IBM? Well, you know what I'm involved with now and after research told me to buy INNI @ 0.12 and CLWK @ 0.56 I think the guys I talk to are being pretty level since we've got a huge new lease going on and they'd like to be able to walk in to a bunch of smiles. The IBM reps even want to include a talk by Dr. Barker at their next seminar here. This isn't bullsh*t, it's just the way that business goes in the background.