71.   Big computer companies that offer a wide range of products and services face stiff competition these days from smaller, more nimble companies.

72.   Both Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. will release new products this summer, and two other major computer companies are expected to report good earnings soon.

73.   Both Seagate Technology Inc., which makes disk drives, and computer network company Cabletron Systems Inc. indicated a possible industrywide slowdown.

74.   -- FBI agents in February arrested two former employees of Ellery Systems Inc., a Boulder, Colo., computer company that is designing software for the information highway.

75.   A computer service company has accused Hewlett-Packard of refusing to sell software service agreements to companies that use other firms for their computer hardware maintenance work.

76.   A better-than-expected earnings report by the computer company Compaq on Thursday revived investor interest in the shares.

77.   A decline overnight by the Nasdaq Composite Average, home of U.S. computer companies such as Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. also weighed on computer-related issues.

78.   A decline overnight by the Nasdaq Composite Average, home of U.S. computer companies such as Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., also weighed on computer-related issues.

79.   A lawyer for another computer company said his client is considering a private suit against Microsoft.

80.   A business major from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., Blazyk held a variety of jobs at computer companies and selling financial services.