41.   C. Kumar Patel, chairman and CEO of Pranalypica of Santa Monica, CA, which makes diagnostic equipment for detecting low-level air pollutants, agreed.

42.   Charlotte, North Carolina-based Glenayre Technologies Inc. also makes switching equipment, primarily for paging networks.

43.   Cisco Systems Inc., which makes computer network equipment used for on-line services, helped techs go higher.

44.   Clinton made his remarks about California after signing a bill designed to make more equipment available to battle wildfires, which ravage the West each year.

45.   Companies that make testing equipment, such as Hewlett-Packard Co., or Varian Associates Inc., could benefit from the shortened time period for export license approval.

46.   Companies that make equipment to link computers into networks also gained.

47.   Companies that make equipment used in production of semiconductors also gained, helped by signs of a turnaround in world chip demand, traders said.

48.   Companies that make equipment used to manufacture chips also gained.

49.   Complicating matters, Cisco makes equipment for many different kinds of businesses, not all of whom may recover from the economic slump at the same time.

50.   Consider the action at Silicon Valley Group, which makes equipment needed to make semiconductors.