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Today the two women are acknowledged leaders in the fast-tracking field of microcomputers, and their six-year-old company, Vector Graphic Inc., stands out as one of the industry's wilder success stories.

Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York, with other bureaus Vector Graphic finds a niche Six years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency.

Sales have zoomed from $404,000 in 1977 to $25 million last year, and more than 12,000 Vector Graphic systems have been installed around the country at retail prices ranging from $4,000 to $25,000.

All involved with the startup have become millionaires: together the founding trio owns more than half of Vector Graphic stock, worth around $29 million at last week's over-the-counter close of $9.75 a share.