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3Com Corporation

5400 Bayfront Plaza
Santa Clara, CA 95052

Phone: 408-326-5000
Fax: 408-326-5001
Website: www.3com.com
Ticker Symbol: COMS

Key Facts

• San Francisco's football stadium, which used to be called Candlestick Park, is now known as 3Com Park.
  
• Facing hard times, but still one of the largest networking companies in the world.
  

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Acer Incorporated

2641 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, CA 95134

Phone: 408-432-6200
Fax: 408-922-2933
Website: www.acer.com
Ticker Symbol: Traded on Taiwan Stock Exchange as 2353

Key Facts

• In 2001, introduced the first Chinese Palm OS handheld device.
  
• Expanding into digital services.
  

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ACTEL

955 East Arques Ave.
Sunnyvale CA, 94086-4533

Phone: 888-99-ACTEL
Fax: 408-739-1540
Website: www.actel.com
Ticker Symbol: ACTL

Key Facts

• Fabless chipmaker: Outsources manufacturing to chip foundries.
  
• World's leading supplier of FGPAs based on anti-fuse technology.
  

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Adaptec

691 Milpitas Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035

Phone: 408-945-8600
Fax: 408-262-2533
Website: www.adaptec.com
Ticker Symbol: ADPT

Key Facts

• S&P Small Cap 600 member.
  
• Pioneered SCSI technology.
  

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Apple Computer Inc.

One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014

Phone: 408-996-1010
Fax: 408-974-2113
Website: www.apple.com
Ticker Symbol: AAPL

Key Facts

• Started the whole personal computer frenzy in the '70s with the Apple II.
  
• Founder Steve Jobs returned to the company as CEO in 1997.
  
• Starting with its "1984" Super Bowl ad of that same year, and continuing through the recent "Think Different" and "Switch" campaigns, Apple has been notable for its compelling advertising.
  

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Creative Technology Ltd.

31 International Business Park, Creative Resource
Singapore 609921, Republic of Singapore

U.S. Headquarters
Creative Labs, Inc.
1901 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035, USA

Phone: +65-6895-4000
Fax: +65-6895-4999
Website: www.creative.com
Ticker Symbol: CREAF

Key Facts

• Creative Technology's Creative CardCam is the thinnest digital camera in the world.
  
• Employs more than 700 R&D engineers and more than 3,300 developers worldwide.
  
• More than 100 million Sound Blaster users worldwide.
  

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Dell Computer Corporation

One Dell Way
Round Rock, TX 78682-2244

Phone: 512-338-4400
Fax: 512-728-3653
Website: www.dell.com
Ticker Symbol: DELL

Key Facts

• First PC company to offer next-day onsite product service.
  
• Part of the mini-Silicon Valley in and around Austin, TX
  

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Diebold, Incorporated

5995 Mayfair Rd.
North Canton, OH 44720-8077

Phone: 330-490-4000
Fax: 330-490-4549
Website: www.diebold.com
Ticker Symbol: DBD

Key Facts

• One of the largest producers of ATMs in the U.S.
  
• In 1999, Diebold introduced the first iris-recognition ATM in the United States, which identifies the customer by recognizing the unique patterns within the iris of the eye.
  

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eMachines, Inc.

14350 Myford Rd.
Building 100
Irvine, CA 92606-1002

Phone: 714-481-2828
Fax: 714-505-5049
Website: www.emachines.com
Ticker Symbol: Not available

Key Facts

• Issued an IPO in 1999, but in 2001 went private again.
  

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EMC Corporation

176 South St.
Hopkinton, MA 01748-9103

Phone: 508-435-1000
Fax: 508-497-6961
Website: www.emc.com
Ticker Symbol: EMC

Key Facts

• With the introduction of the first Symmetrix storage systems for open systems, surpassed IBM as market share leader in mainframe disk storage capacity.
  
• Blows away the competition in most storage markets, including the external RAID, networked storage, and data replication-software markets.
  

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Finisar

1308 Moffett Park Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Phone: 408-548-1000
Fax: 408-548-0083
Website: www.finisar.com
Ticker Symbol: FNSR (Nasdaq)

Key Facts

• IPO on November 12, 1999 raised approximately $150 million.
  

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Gateway, Inc.

14303 Gateway Pl.
Poway, CA 92064

Phone: 858-848-3401
Fax: 858-848-3401
Website: www.gateway.com
Ticker Symbol: GTW

Key Facts

• Has lost money in most quarters during the past couple of years.
  

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Hewlett Packard

3000 Hanover St.
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Phone: 650-857-1501
Fax: 650-857-7299
Website: www.hp.com
Ticker Symbol: HWP

Key Facts

• Has grown in every one of its 60 years
  
• Offers around 25,000 different products at the moment
  

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Ingram Micro Inc.

1600 E. St. Andrew Pl.
P.O. Box 25125
Santa Ana, CA 92705

Phone: 714-566-1000
Fax: 714-506-7733
Website: www.ingrammicro.com
Ticker Symbol: IM

Key Facts

• World's largest global wholesale provider of technology products and supply chain management services.
  
• Offers more than 280,000 products from 1,700 manufacturers
  

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Intel

Robert Noyce Building
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052

Phone: 408-765-8080
Fax: 408-765-6284
Website: www.intel.com
Ticker Symbol: INTC

Key Facts

• Nearly 80 percent of the world's PCs run on Intel chips.
  
• Dell Computer is Intel's largest customer.
  

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Lexmark International Group

740 New Circle Rd.
Lexington, KY 40550

Phone: 859-232-2000
Fax: 859-232-2403
Website: www.lexmark.com
Ticker Symbol: LXK

Key Facts

• Sells globally through wholesale distributors like Ingram Micro and retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, and France's Carrefour.
  
• Looking to emerging markets like Latin America and Asia-Pacific to fuel continued growth of printer markets.
  

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Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399

Phone: 425-882-8080
Fax: 425-936-7329
Website: www.microsoft.com
Ticker Symbol: MSFT

Key Facts

• Microsoft is deeply invested in research & development; more than a third of the company's employees work in R&D.
  
• In 1981, IBM included MS-DOS in its first PCs, giving Microsoft a toehold in the high-tech industry-one that it would leverage into industry domination over the years.
  

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Qlogic Corporation

26600 Laguna Hills Dr.
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Phone: 949-389-6000
Fax: 949-389-6126
Website: www.qlogic.com
Ticker Symbol: QLGC

Key Facts

• Ranked 20th on Fortune's "Fastest-Growing Companies" list.
  
• Key partners include Computer Associates, Legato, McData, Microsoft and VERITAS.
  

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Read-Rite Corp.

44100 Osgood Rd.
Fremont, CA 94539

Phone: 510-683-6100
Fax: 510-683-7060
Website: www.readrite.com
Ticker Symbol: RDRT

Key Facts

• Started by two ex-Memorex employees.
  
• Operations in California, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Singapore.
  

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Seagate Technology LLC

920 Disc Dr.
Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Phone: 405-936-1234
Fax: 405-936-1220
Website: www.seagate.com
Ticker Symbol: SEG

Key Facts

• A leading manufacturer of disk drives, magnetic disks, and read-write heads.
  
• In 2002, Seagate shipped more enterprise drives than Fujitsu, IBM, and Maxtor combined.
  

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Silicon Graphics, Inc.

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy.
Mountain View, CA 94043-1351

Phone: 650-960-1980
Fax: 650-932-0661
Website: www.sgi.com
Ticker Symbol: SGI

Key Facts

• Developed the Unix operating system.
  
• Ranked 34th on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for" list.
  

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Solectron

777 Gibraltar Dr.
Milpitas, CA 95035

Phone: 408-957-8500
Fax: 408-957-6056
Website: www.solectron.com
Ticker Symbol: SLR

Key Facts

• A member of the Fortune 500, and 88th on Fortune's "Fastest-Growing Companies" list.
  
• First company to win the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award twice.
  

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Storage Technology Corporation

One StorageTek Dr.
Louisville, CO 80028-4309

Phone: 303-673-5151
Fax: 303-661-7637
Website: www.stortek.com
Ticker Symbol: STK

Key Facts

• Employs some 1,500 R&D employees.
  
• Partners with a host of companies including Dell, Sun, Fujitsu, and HP.
  

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Texas Instruments Incorporated

12500 TI Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75266-0199

Phone: 972-995-3773
Fax: 972-995-3773
Website: www.ti.com
Ticker Symbol: TXN

Key Facts

• Ranked 49th in Fortune's "Global Most Admired Companies" list.
  
• Four-fifths of Texas Instruments' revenue comes from its semiconductor business.
  
• Jack Kilby, a retired TI engineer who in the 1950s developed the world's first integrated circuit, without which modern computer technology would not have been possible, won the Nobel Prize for his achievement in 2000.
  

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Unisys

Unisys Way
Blue Bell, PA 19424

Phone: 215-986-4011
Fax: 215-986-2312
Website: www.unisys.com
Ticker Symbol: UIS

Key Facts

• Has long-term outsourcing contracts with organizations like Washington Mutual, Lloyds TSB, Northwest Airlines, California State University Systems, and GE Capital Bank.
  
• Traces its roots back to E. Remington & Sons, the maker of the first commercially viable typewriter; Burroughs, the maker of the first adding-and-subtracting machine; and Sperry Corp.

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Xerox

800 Long Ridge Rd.
Stamford, CT 06904

Phone: 203-968-3000
Fax: 203-968-3218
Website: www.xerox.com
Ticker Symbol: XRX

Key Facts

• Selected by CIO magazine as one of the top 100 companies that should excel in the 21st century Industry Week named Xerox Corporation one of the world's best-managed companies
• Offers many benefits including childcare subsidy, mortgage assistance for first-time home-buyers, and educational assistance

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