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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Whitley who wrote (7757)	5/5/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Anonymous	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21876

This comment is not for you Jack Whitley...just throwing out some words to be added to what I've just spent about forty-five minutes reading. Geez! It sure was a lot of verbage to wade through today. Most of this stuff can be had at the Lucent home page or from other financial news services around the internet. As a retired LUCENT employee who sat in on an enormous amount of useless meetings in my 35 years, some of the stuff said around here reminds me of some young engineer trying to impress everyone with his technical know how of inside jargon and acronyms that somebody has just invented and is now spreading around. The plant I worked in was still making vacuum tubes when I started doing production engineering on a line that was making PNP and NPN discrete transistors, and they were alloy junction too boot! SBC was one of our favorites when I moved over to diffused devices. And that didn't stand for Standard Broadcasting System...it stood for Standard Buried Collector. That's when transistors had a collector, and emitter and a base. God...how long ago that was. Now, can anyone tell me what I should do with my 2095 shares of Lucent? I just happened to move back into it on January 6 and haven't made a cent as of this moment. I really want it to go up a little so I can get out again with a little profit...all this is in my 401K and therefore is easy for me to do. I should have dumped out of this right after the split but being an optimist I hung in there and have watched it being whittled down once again to its present value. I hope there is some support at these levels. Anonymous