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To: Earlie who wrote (48130)	2/21/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Earlie, Sadly, it is babies. Females think I'm the coolest dude on the planet until they reach puberty. <g> MB

To: Earlie who wrote (48130)	2/21/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

sent to cnbc. earlie, do you have any connections ;-) Dear Sir or Madam, I e-mailed you a while back regarding Micron Technology's shake and bake financial reporting. for whatever reason, CNBC decide that it wasn't news. However, the New York Times thought it was important enough to put on the front page of their Sunday edition. Well, I have another story that is many times larger than that one. PC revenues in the PC industry shrank in 1998 relative to 1997 for the first time in the history of the PC. How do I know?, the billion dollar news organization asks the e-mailer? Simple deduction. PC units were up between 12-15% per IDC and a few other sources. I'm sure you can dig up a few more sources than I can. ASPS were down 20% per Best Buy, 25% per the Intel CEO, 20-30% per the box resellers, 25% per the DOC estimate figured into inflation and at least about 20% per basic common sense. Now, stick with me here, the math is extremely complex. 1.15 * .8 = .92. Did you catch it? If units grew 15% over 1997, then we have to factor the increased unit calculation by .15 and we get 1.15. If we know units dropped 20%, which is the low end of any number reported that I am aware of, we get $0.80. Multiply the two and we get .92, with 1.00 representing 1005 of revenues in 1997. Of course, this isn't completely free. You should do a little research yourself and try to nail down unit growth and asp declines more accurately. I am only sure of one thing. PC revenues were down for the first time since the PC was invented. A decrease of possibly 8% or more in PC revenues and NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT? In fact, they are talking about GROWTH! Unreal. Fact is fiction and fiction is fact. This is a breaking story. Few stories would be, or even could be, bigger. Maybe only Y2K. OK, you have another shot. Or, rather, you can do nothing and watch it get published somewhere else, just like you did with the Micron piece.