71.   Mike Zimmerman of Lansdale, Pa., customizes cars for Blaupunkt, an audio equipment company, and brought an original Volkswagen Beetle to the Javits show.

72.   Network equipment companies make electronic devices and software to help computers exchange information with each other.

73.   Nishio Rent All Co., a construction equipment rental company, may also sell five- or six-year bonds through New Japan, they said.

74.   No news was released on the St. Charles-based telecommunications equipment company.

75.   Not only do some of the drug stocks own medical equipment companies, but, more important, they own or have marketing agreements with biotech companies.

76.   Nokia, Ericsson and the other equipment companies are preparing their factories to produce millions of phones and tens of thousands of cell sites.

77.   Not all equipment companies are convinced.

78.   Of course, semiconductor equipment companies do sell a lot of equipment to Korean and Japanese semiconductor manufacturers.

79.   Other chip equipment companies rallied.

80.   Other analysts said telecommunications equipment companies and software developers focused on the Internet infrastructure fared better this week.