EXHIBIT 99.2

STEPHEN J. PAVLOVICH:

Good afternoon. I'd like to welcome all of you to our first quarter conference
call. Joining me today is our Chairman and CEO, Carly Fiorina, and Bob Wayman,
our chief financial officer.

Before we get started, I'd like to remind you that the call is being webcast on
hp.com. Click on "Investor Relations" and then "Listen to Q1 earnings conference
call". A replay will also be available shortly after the conclusion of the call
through February 20th.

Next, it's my duty to inform you that the primary purpose of this call is to
provide you with information regarding the quarter just ended. It's possible,
however, that some of our comments and responses to your questions may include
forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks
and uncertainties, and actual future results may vary materially. Again, I
encourage you to read the risks described in the company's annual report on form
10-K for the year ended October 31, 2001 filed with the SEC for an understanding
of the factors that may affect the company's businesses and results.

Now, before I turn things over to Carly and Bob, I'd like point out a couple of
changes that we've made to our segment reporting starting this quarter. We have
added two new segments to provide better visibility into our businesses, and to
make our reporting more consistent with the way we manage the businesses.
Specifically, in addition to the Imaging and Printing, Computer Systems, IT
Services and "Other" segments, we will now be reporting Embedded and Personal
Systems and Financing as separate segments. The Embedded and Personal Systems
segment includes all of our PC business, both consumer and commercial, as well
as our handheld and appliance businesses. In addition, Financing has been
separated to provide better visibility to the workings of our financing business
on a standalone basis and to eliminate confusion created when it was included in
IT Services. We have prepared restated segment data for the FY01 by quarter and
posted it on the IR website for your convenience.

So, with that, I'll turn things over to Carly for her remarks.


CARLETON S. FIORINA:

Thank you, Steve.

This afternoon we announced our first quarter results. Given the difficult
environment we are operating in, we are pleased with our performance... and I
want to thank the people of HP for their focus and hard work -- they didn't get
distracted when there was plenty of opportunity to do so.

Here's a quick summary.

We reported first quarter revenue of $11.4 billion, up 5% sequentially from
$10.9 billion in the fourth quarter and down 8% from the $12.4 billion reported
in the same period last year. This sequential top line growth -- driven largely
by strong sales in consumer and commercial PCs, digital imaging products and our
outsourcing business -- is particularly encouraging given that we were
anticipating a slight revenue decline at the start of the quarter.

Also encouraging is that we significantly increased gross margin. Pro forma
gross margin was 26.9%, up substantially from 25.7% in the prior quarter and
flat with last year.

We maintained our focus on managing our cost structure; keeping expenses
essentially flat sequentially -- up less than 1% on a pro forma basis -- and
down 2% year-over-year.

As a result, we reported pro forma earnings per share of 29 cents, compared
with 19 cents in the preceding quarter and 41 cents in the year-ago quarter.




On the balance sheet side, we had another strong quarter in terms of cash
generation and inventory management. Cash flow from operations was $1.6 billion
during the quarter and we exited the quarter with more than $7 billion in cash
and short-term investments on the balance sheet. Again, this strong performance
was helped by solid inventory management -- inventory was down nearly $750
million in the quarter as we continue to improve our execution throughout the
supply chain and distribution.

Market conditions remain tough worldwide -- both in the consumer and the
enterprise space. We did see an uptick in consumer spending in North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific, largely holiday-related and centered in our digital
imaging and consumer PC businesses. While the holiday spending season was a
pleasant surprise -- and one we didn't let slip by -- we're not counting on it
repeating in this post-holiday quarter. Our performance in this market requires
that we continue to be sharp in our execution.

The enterprise market is even tougher and continues to be characterized by
sluggish corporate IT spending, very aggressive competition and tough deal
pricing. This is particularly true among our largest corporate customers and in
the telecom, airlines, manufacturing and high-tech industries. Although we did
see some improvement in spending habits and overall tone across our business
customers we continue to believe a recovery won't occur until the second half of
this year, and we're managing the business accordingly.

So it's with that backdrop that I'd offer some context... a few key takeaways...
from this quarter's results. Takeaways that you'll hear Bob echo as he talks
more specifically about the segments.

First, the hard work of restructuring and refocusing HP during these past
two-and-a-half years has laid the foundation for an organization that has the




capability to lead. Our execution over these past two quarters demonstrates that
we are ready to take a decisive step to strengthen the business.

The people of HP CAN execute -- and they've proven it. Think about the
challenges these employees have had to face up to and overcome: a very difficult
economic environment worldwide; an industry undergoing rapid transformation;
intense competition; and a distracting proxy contest that none of us could have
predicted but one we're determined to win. This team has shown their mettle and
turned in results that I think are worthy of praise.

But more importantly, I think these results demonstrate we know our business --
better than anyone else. We recognize where we are strong... and where we need
to strengthen.

On the consumer side, we got a lift from our digital imaging business. We had
strong sequential revenue growth, reflecting not only the better than expected
holiday buying season, but the fact that we have outstanding products in the
marketplace supported by smart marketing and a well-oiled supply chain. Our
digital cameras continue to be a strong performer -- a consistent seller, which
achieved the number one market share position in U.S. retail in November. Our
photo printer businesses showed 159% unit growth and also held the number one
U.S. retail market position in November.

And we are winning in low-end printing. HP retained the number one worldwide
position in the sub-$100 category with a 34% share. And we're not relenting;
we'll continue to offer next-generation products that offer superior performance
with a cost structure specifically designed for this category.

In consumer PCs, we achieved solid profit and share, and stronger than expected
revenues. We hit new market share highs -- especially in North America -- where
we captured 59% of the U.S. retail market in November according to




the most recent industry data. This strong performance on the consumer side,
plus tight operational focus, led to profitability -- albeit slight -- in the
overall PC business. We've got some good things going on in this business. We
need to build on them -- not tear it down as some have suggested.

We are continuing to see good demand for supplies. Our supplies revenue showed
strong year-over-year growth of 9%, driven by an increase in unit volume. This
is a good example of where innovation counts -- it may seem like a
straightforward business, but being ahead of the innovation curve is critical to
driving demand. This quarter we introduced several new cartridge formats and are
working with new partners in areas like mail addressing, invisible document
coding, and ID cards -- something very top of mind these days.

On the enterprise side, we're focused on a few things: improving our market
position in the fastest growing segments, strengthening our end-to-end solutions
delivery capability, capitalizing on customers' movement toward premier support
and outsourcing providers, and controlling costs.

Our UNIX(R) business delivered healthy margins and good expense control. We ARE
profitable here. Superdome is now a proven technology that continues to gain
momentum. And we are rolling over our mid-range line and will have a strong
product line-up in the market when conditions improve.

In services, we saw outstanding year-over-year growth. In local currency, we
grew outsourcing 32%, and achieved 7% revenue growth in our highly profitable
support services, where our capabilities are really resonating with corporate
clients as they struggle to maintain effectiveness with shrinking IT budgets.
Support is a business that generates very strong double-digit operating profit
margins quarter after quarter -- it's a business, like supplies, where more is
better. And it provides terrific opportunities for up-sell.




So, we have real strengths. And we've made significant progress. But this isn't
the end-game. It's a platform to build on. We also know our weaknesses and we
know what we need to do to fix them.

In the commercial PC business, we are operating at a loss and we lack the direct
distribution capabilities needed to improve our competitive position.

In storage, while we have strong capabilities, we don't have enough capacity in
networked storage to lead.

We still struggle in the low-end IA-32 server arena. More and more low- and
mid-range applications will be delivered on Windows and Linux servers -- HP has
been losing momentum and losing money in our Windows business for almost two
years. Today, our overall IA-32 server unit market share is about 9%. And while
we've made great progress in Linux, our efforts here need to be beefed-up
quickly. We need a winning multi-OS server business to be successful in
enterprise computing and to execute on our strategy.

Our services organization has the skills and the capability to really succeed --
but it needs more scale to compete for and win the biggest potential business
opportunities out there.

And it's worth repeating... too much of our profitability comes from our imaging
and printing business. We have to invest more in imaging and printing to lead,
which means our other businesses have to pay their own way. Continued growth in
imaging and printing requires creating new categories such as digital publishing
and digital imaging. And these growth opportunities depend upon the capabilities
we have in computing and storage and servers and network management.




And this is where the merger with Compaq comes in.

HP needs to take decisive actions to further improve our market position and
profitability, especially in computing systems and commercial PCs. These
businesses are important pieces of our broader portfolio and must be
sufficiently profitable in their own right.

Let's talk about PCs. Over the last year-and-a-half Compaq has created a
successful direct delivery engine that has improved its annual inventory turns
in that business from 23 to 62 -- a more than 100% improvement year over. They
ship about 70% of their commercial volume in North America through their direct
channel, comparable to Dell. Combining our successful retail PC business model
with their commercial business model allows us to achieve much more together
than we could alone.

Compaq is the leading provider of storage systems in the world on a revenue
basis. With Compaq, we will become the number one player in storage, and the
leader in the fastest growing segment of the storage market storage area
networks. Coupled with our high-end storage management capabilities, it's a
winning play.

With Compaq, we will become number one in Windows, number one in Linux and
number one in UNIX(R). This new strength and our market presence make us a much
more attractive partner. And with our combined market position in servers, we
will be able to engage the software community in building the applications that
will drive demand for Itanium systems.

With Compaq, we will double our service and support capacity in the area of
mission-critical infrastructure design, outsourcing and support, giving us the
meaningful scale to play a leadership role in this business. And we will double
the size of our sales force, allowing us to serve more customers more
effectively.




The simple fact is HP has a lot going for it. But there are also significant
areas where a lot more is needed. And with Compaq we have a detailed plan -- not
just platitudes -- to address them.

With that, let me turn the call over to Bob to give you more detail on the
numbers.

Bob...



ROBERT P. WAYMAN:

Thanks Carly,

Given our performance this quarter, it's a real pleasure to review the numbers
with you today.

Nine days ago we indicated that we would exit our fiscal Q1 stronger on both
the top and bottom line than our previous guidance at the beginning of the
quarter. Our original expectations were based on very uncertain market
conditions in both the enterprise and consumer markets and uncertainty about the
impact of our proposed merger with Compaq. Given these challenges, our
performance during the quarter was encouraging as it showed the underlying
strength of our business and the continued ability of the HP team to execute
during challenging times.

So let's look at the numbers...

At a high level, we achieved revenue of $11.4 billion during the quarter and pro
forma EPS of 29 cents. This represents 53% sequential growth, and a 29% decline
year-over-year. Pro forma gross margin improvement to 26.9% during the quarter
contributed significantly to bottom line performance, as did continued
aggressive expense management. Expenses were up less than 1% from Q4 on a pro
forma basis.



Q1 revenue of $11.4 billion was up 5% from Q4 of last year, significantly above
our original sequential guidance of "down slightly". As a reminder, Q1 is
typically down from Q4 due to normal seasonality so this was a pretty solid
quarter. Revenue strength was driven predominantly by our consumer business
where strong demand for consumer PC's and digital imaging products pushed
consumer revenue up nearly 10% sequentially. Enterprise revenue was flat from
the prior quarter while IT-service revenue was up 1%.

On a year-over-year basis, revenue was down 8% in dollars and 7% in constant
currency. Since currency really wasn't very significant this quarter, my
comments will be in dollar terms unless I make specific comments to local
currency. While the challenging economic environment is clearly global in
nature, European performance was the strongest versus the prior quarter.
Sequentially, European revenue was up 12% compared to revenue growth of only 1%
in both the U.S. and Asia Pacific. Latin America continues to be a difficult
economic environment with revenue down 6% from Q4.

On a year-over-year basis, U.S. revenue was down 9%, while European revenue was
down 5%. Asia Pacific performance was relatively good in local currency terms
compared to last year, down only 3%, but significant currency devaluation
throughout the year particularly in Japan pushed the decline to 9% in dollar
terms.





Finally, Latin America was notably weak with year-over-year revenue down 18%.

A few country details for year-over-year performance: within Asia Pacific, Japan
and Australasia were each down 18%. Korea declined 7% while China continues to
be a source of strength with revenue growth of 9% from last year. In Europe,
most countries were flat or showed little change year-over-year. However,
weakness in the U.K., down 24%, and Germany, down 11%, hurt overall region
performance.

As we enter Q2, we remain cautious and are not counting on Q1's strong consumer
demand to continue. The enterprise spending environment remains weak. As a
result, we now expect Q2 revenues to be down modestly from our Q1 level.

Next, gross margin...

We exited Q1 with a pro forma gross margin of 26.9%, a marked improvement from
Q4's 25.7%. At 26.9% we are in line with last year's Q1, an excellent result in
the context of an 8% lower top line. Improvement was company-wide with all of
our reported business segments registering sequential gross margin expansion.
Driving the above-plan performance in gross margin were higher than expected
revenue and improved mix to higher margin products in our inkjet and PC
businesses. Our workforce reduction actions, which have been





key in driving down expenses, also helped cost of sales. In addition, a
favorable yen benefited cost of sales in our LaserJet business.

Looking ahead to Q2, we expect gross margin to be approximately flat
sequentially.

Moving on to operating expenses...

Pro forma operating expenses were up less than 1% sequentially, and down 2%
year-over-year. As a percentage of revenue, expenses ended the quarter at 20.6%,
down from Q4's 21.4%. The numbers don't fully reflect the excellent progress we
made in managing expenses during the quarter because our above plan quarter
resulted in a higher bonus expense than was initially forecast. Were it not for
this incremental cost, total operating expenses would have been down 1%
sequentially.

Going forward, we are continuing to streamline our business and improve our cost
structure. You'll recall that in Q3 and Q4 we took temporary measures to reduce
short-term expenses. At the same time, we began a longer-term reduction in cost
structure with the implementation of the workforce reduction program announced
in July. That program called for the reduction of 6,000 positions with the goal
of improving our long-term cost structure. In addition to the 4,100 people who
left the company in Q4, some 1,350 people left the company as part of the
workforce reduction program during Q1. Most of the remaining position cuts will
occur during Q2. While our cost





structure is clearly improving, it's seasonally typical that Q2 expenses
increase over Q1. Given these offsetting effects, I'd model Q2 expenses roughly
at Q1 levels.

Pro forma operating margin of 6.3% was up from last quarter's 4.3%, but down
from the year ago quarter's 7.6%. Other income was a positive $10 million and
our tax rate remained constant at 22%, both figures consistent with our original
quarterly guidance. All in all, a pretty solid quarter during some pretty
challenging times.

Looking forward to Q2, we expect the other income number to be about zero, with
a range of +/- $20-million and the pro forma tax rate to remain unchanged at
22%.

As Steve outlined earlier, we have redefined our business segments. We made the
change to provide better visibility into the dynamics of our various businesses
and to be consistent with how we manage the businesses. We hope that you find
the changes useful.

So, let's review segment performance...

Starting with the Imaging and Printing Systems segment, revenue was up 2%
sequentially, but down 2% year-over-year in both dollars and constant currency.
Business printers were up 2% sequentially while home printers were down 2% from
the prior quarter. We've





talked a lot in recent quarters about low-end growth within our single-function
Inkjet business. Lower ASP's in this market hurt inkjet revenue growth again
this quarter. However, we are seeing an offsetting change in mix toward higher
margin multi-function printers and high-value imaging devices from single
function printers. Of combined home and digital imaging categories, photo
printers and all-in-ones rose from 24% of revenue to 32% year-over-year.

Digital imaging, including digital cameras, photo printers and scanners showed
growth of 26% from the prior quarter, the result of a better than expected
holiday selling season. Photo printers, a particularly hot product category, saw
triple digit unit growth year-over-year.

The supplies business is healthy, up 9% year-over-year and 1% sequentially. This
compares to 6% year-over-year growth in Q4 and flat year-over-year growth in Q3.
This upward trend combined with strong growth in ink-intensive all-in-one
products and photo printers is a good foundation for continued strong revenue
performance. Moreover, we continue to protect Inkjet margins by vigorously
defending our intellectual property.

Finally, while imaging and printing revenues were solid, the real story was
operating profit performance for this segment which at 14.6% was well above last
quarter's 9.8%, and last year's 12.9%. Continued price competition, the
investment we're making in commercial printing and the ongoing need for greater
R&D, will put pressure on margins.





Mitigating this pressure is solid unit growth contributing to a larger installed
base, and a better mix of ink-rich, all-in-one and photo printers. Given these
dynamics, this quarter's result is likely a high water mark for operating profit
going forward.

Moving to Computing Systems, Q2 was another tough quarter as weak enterprise
spending continued to present challenges. Overall revenue was down 21% from a
year ago and down 4% from Q4. Operating margin declined to negative 8%, down
from last quarter's negative 6.7%. While Unix(R) continues to be profitable, it
is clear that we need to take steps necessary to improve the profitability of
our other enterprise businesses. Our goal is to position this business for
success once enterprise spending picks up again. To that end, we've made a lot
of progress. Our Unix(R) lineup is as solid as it's ever been and while overall
Unix(R) revenues were down 7% sequentially, our strategically important
mid-range Unix(R) business posted its first sequential gain since Q4 of 2000, up
3%.

Revenue in our IA-32 Industry Standard Server business was flat sequentially,
even as we were improving our cost structure in this business. Storage revenues
were down 4% from Q4, in large part because of intense price competition, and
software finished the quarter down 2% from Q4 levels.

Now to Embedded and Personal Systems where we made significant progress during
the quarter. Overall revenue was up 22%





sequentially, including 53% growth in home PCs, and 31% growth in handheld
devices. Commercial PC's and notebooks also posted solid gains in sequential
revenue. We achieved these results while updating our commercial lineup to
include the new E-PC P4 in December and the new VL-420 in January. We also were
first to market in every major region with machines running the new XP operating
system. Not only did this demonstrate strong execution, but it also gave us time
to market volume and pricing advantages versus our competition.

On the margin front, strong demand for consumer PCs combined with better mix
pushed operating profit to 3% for our home PC category. And while commercial
PCs did not quite break even for the quarter, we did improve our operating
margin to its best level since Q1 of last year. Despite the notion that the PC
business is not a good business, our combined PC business was profitable during
the quarter. Overall operating margin for the Embedded and Personal Systems
business was very nearly breakeven, finishing the quarter at minus 0.2%, better
than any quarter since FY2000.

Moving to IT Services, Q1 was another solid quarter. Revenue was up 1%
sequentially and 2% year-over-year. Tighter IT budgets pushed consulting revenue
down 4% sequentially, but benefited our counter-cyclical outsourcing business
which achieved growth of 16% sequentially and 31% year-over-year. Support
services continued to be a strong annuity asset in a challenging worldwide
economy, reliable on the top line, with year-over-year revenue growth of 5%,





and superb on the bottom line. That's why we say support is a lot like
supplies..........more is better! Driving growth was the continued move to
mission-critical services and the growth in storage and network support, all
higher value and higher margin services.

IT Services operating margin performance continued to improve, finishing the
quarter at 13%, up from last quarter's 10.9%. Improvements in outsourcing and
consulting margins drove overall operating profit improvements.

Finally, within our Financing segment, we've taken a lot of action in recent
quarters to improve performance, including: tightening credit policies, more
conservative residual assumptions, improving the mix between operating and
rental leases, and the write-down of bad accounts. I'm pleased to report that we
are finally starting to see the results of these efforts. For Q1, our financing
business operating margin improved to minus 2%, up significantly from any period
last year. Excluding $25 million of charges in Argentina, operating profit would
have been 5%. Revenue showed the effect of our tightened policies and a
generally down enterprise environment. All in all, we've made a lot of progress
in this business, and while we still have a lot of work left to do, we're
beginning to see some positive results.

Next, let me take a few minutes to review our balance sheet, asset management
and cash position.





We exited Q1 with inventory levels in excellent shape, down $750 million from
Q4. This on top of the $600 million sequential decrease we reported to you last
quarter. Virtually every business segment showed declines in inventory from the
prior quarter with the bulk of the decline, $650 million, in imaging and
printing. While we did a good job managing inventory during the quarter, greater
than anticipated demand for some of our imaging and printing products created
backorder issues for some of our products. As such, inventory levels are likely
to increase going forward so that we avoid shortages of product.

I want to be clear in saying that our inventory results are the outcome of solid
inventory management, not write-offs or moving inventory into the channel. As a
percentage of revenue, inventory ended the quarter at 10.1%, significantly down
from last January when it stood at 13%. In the channel, inventory levels rose
mildly to traditional holiday levels in November and December before retreating
to expected levels in January. Channel inventories ended the quarter in line
with our normal expectations...PCs at 4 1/2 weeks, is where they should
be given the recent introduction of new products. Ink printers at 4 weeks were
within plan, ink supplies at 4 1/2 weeks were somewhat below optimal levels,
while some of our more popular all-in-one and photo printers were well below
desired levels.

Trade receivables was another good story for us during the quarter as we drew
them down by more than $350 million sequentially. This is a nice result in the
context of 5% sequential revenue growth.





Receivables currently stand at 9.4% of annual revenues versus last year's 11%,
and DSO is down both sequentially and from the first quarter of last year.

On the liability side of the balance sheet, we drew down short-term debt by $260
million during the quarter while increasing long-term debt by $800 million.

Our strong inventory and receivables stories contributed to an excellent cash
flow quarter. Net cash from operations was $1.6 billion for the quarter. Last
year when we were still adjusting to a tougher economic environment, Q1
operations resulted in a net use of cash of nearly $600 million. As the numbers
indicated, we've definitely made the right adjustments to our business model and
we executed business fundamentals pretty well throughout the quarter.

Finally, looking at capital assets... property, plant and equipment ended the
quarter virtually unchanged from the start of the quarter with asset
depreciation offsetting net capital expenditures. Capital expenditures net of
dispositions was $256 million during the quarter compared with $321 million for
the same period last year.

In summary, I am really pleased with our cash and asset management during the
quarter. Our P&L is benefiting from an improving cost structure, the balance
sheet is in good shape, and exceptional execution and improved profitability
resulted in very solid cash generation during the quarter. Given the current
consumer and





enterprise spending environments, I feel good about our financial position as we
enter Q2. Clearly there are challenges ahead, but we're well positioned to deal
with them.

On that note, I'll turn things back to Carly for a few concluding remarks.




CARLETON S. FIORINA:


Thanks.  Just a couple points and we'll open up the lines.

I think it's clear we aren't distracted by the merger or the challenge of
integration. And our customers aren't defecting. Our merger with Compaq has the
attributes of mergers that have succeeded.

This is a merger of like businesses coming together -- a merger of
consolidation, not diversification. HP and Compaq are in the same businesses, we
understand each other, we speak the same language. This is a merger that creates
market leadership.

It is a rare opportunity when a technology company can, at the same time, build
substantial market leadership and substantially reduce its cost structure. And
this is possible because Compaq and HP are in the same businesses, pursuing the
same strategies, in the same markets, with complementary capabilities.

This is a merger that we expect to be substantially accretive even with revenue
losses baked in. This is a merger with lots of upside potential in both cost
synergies and revenue.






This industry is beginning to consolidate; and current technology industry
dynamics are much more akin to other consolidating industries -- where mergers
are not only workable, but a strategic imperative.

The timing of this deal is also important. Unlike so many, particularly in the
high-tech arena, we're doing this merger at the near bottom of a market cycle
not the top. That means valuations are fair, customers aren't making major IT
investments, and our competitors are in a holding pattern or dealing with
business model challenges of their own as they adjust to lower overall industry
growth rates. And perhaps most importantly, our employee base is stable.
Attrition at HP and Compaq are near all-time lows.

And, we're not leaving anything to chance. A group of more than 450 dedicated
people, between HP and Compaq, have been working around the clock to understand
the complexity of past mergers and make the right decisions for the new company.
We're drawing on our very direct experience spinning out Agilent as well as
Compaq's acquisitions of DEC and Tandem. And we're working with people who've
been involved in lots of mergers and know what makes the difference between
success and failure.

We are addressing the critical factors for successful merger execution --
including ensuring an unyielding focus on customers throughout the pre- and
post-close integration process; developing clear product roadmaps, defining
governance for the new company; preparing ourselves for day one across every
level of the company; developing rigorous plans for capturing the cost savings
we have identified, as well as upside in revenues; and staying in constant
communication with employees and stakeholders. Interestingly, the adversity
we've faced has brought the two organizations even closer together and created
an even more unified and committed team.






We are on a path toward enhancing shareowner value. Every day, it's becoming
clearer: what these two companies can achieve together, is greater than what
either company could achieve on its own.

Now I'd like to open up the call to take your questions.



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modest levels while increasing revenue; the challenges of integration and
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the possibility that planned acquisitions may not close or that modifications of
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COMPAQ MERGER AND WHERE TO FIND IT

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definitive joint proxy statement/prospectus regarding the Compaq merger.
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