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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (12086)	4/27/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Jeffrey P	Respond to of 16960

... snip ... snip ... snip ... 5 by monday ... sni... WHAT? Great! I'll be out of town and can't access internet till monday... i'll be dying this weekend... I may be able to get 5minutes or so of access, if someone can send a personal message to me with status of 3dfx/stbi I would GREATLY appreciate it. Jeff "I voted today" P.

To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (12086)	4/27/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: Peter S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I just voted as a Long. 'For' of course. Has anyone else had the pleasure of careening down the luge in Powerslide? Weeeeehooooooooooo!!! The bumper cam view is glorious. Impossible to determine which way your car is pointed but it is otherwise a wondrous gift from the gods of 3D. So fast, it's kind of ridiculous. And no-one gets hurt. I have been reading alot about how over-clockable the V3 is and there are a few V3 Tuning Tools floating about. This tells me that V3 owners are having a lot of fun with their new card. This is good. Very well written IMO review of a TNT2 Leadtek card on AnandTech. Lots of info - too much to summarize. OK I'll summarize: V3 2k/3k kicks its scrawny little ass even in 16 bit. The TNT2 was on pre-release drivers but isn't this card shipping already? Also, Anand even over-clocked the TNT2 from 125 to 150Mhz to give it a chance but it was still 10+ FPS slower than a V3 2000. The SLI scored better. Leadtek are going to hurt Nvidia. The Quake Crusher scores beat the V3 3000 at 10x7 on a Pii 500 but not a 400 and the V3 wasn't even over-clocked. Also, PC sales are still strong for now: maximumpcmag.com Peter S PS: NVIDIA just released 5 mil unrestricted shares. (Source: AGN3D)

To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (12086)	4/27/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: Joe C.	Respond to of 16960

Patrick, I thought about the STBI 2/3 vote requirement when I saw it and decided that the risk is low for the following reasons: 1. STBI institutional ownership was in the low 40's percent if I recall correctly - much higher than TDFX I might add. You can count on these guys to vote Yes. 2. Management vote is a lock given TDFX right to vote their shares but don't know if those shares were counted in the institutional total - probably were. 3. Number of actual stockholders is usually suprisingly small. I figure most investors keep up with it and know the importance of the vote. 4. Voting Yes to merge means money in the pocket - a little incentive. 5. Big boys were buying in a big way on the recent run-up. If that's not an indication that this will happen, than I don't know what is. 6. Didn't know this at the time, but when I read some posts that they were calling to get the votes out it added to my level of comfort. Even my dad got a call on Monday for his 600 shares of STB - needless to say he voted after the call. I'm pretty confident this thing will happen. If I weren't I would have already sold. But then again, I could be wrong. Isn't this fun? Joe C.

To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (12086)	4/27/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: Joe C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Patrick, that 1/4 million "trade" seems to have been a technical glitch with Yahoo. Yahoo shows a "flat liner" for some time before the trade. Quote.com doesn't have the trade on their screen. On your other comment about short shares, I believe but do not know for certain that when you place your shares on margin and the stock is loaned out, you lose the right to vote. This can be done because the shares are in street name for a margin account and the broker tracks the stock. I'm wondering what happens if the stock is not loaned out - does the owner get to vote? Double voting just doesn't make sense to me from a legal - one share one vote - point of view. Like I said, I'm not sure of the answer and its' kinda late for me to look it up. Maybe someone else can add some insight. Joe C.