Would you have invested in Microsoft 1978?

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  1. lixluke

    lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    lixluke, Feb 23, 2005
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  3. Communist Hamster

    Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    With hindsight : OMG I'm gonna be rich!
    Without hinsight: What a bunch of beards.

    Which one is Bill?
     
    Communist Hamster, Feb 23, 2005
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  5. lixluke

    lixluke Refined Reinvention Valued Senior Member

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    Duh.
     
    lixluke, Feb 23, 2005
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    vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    bill is the extra nerdy one in the bottem left corner
     
    vslayer, Feb 23, 2005
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  8. spuriousmonkey

    spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    I was only 8 in 1978. I had about 25 cents in savings. I doubt I could have bought a share. My financial relationship with the bank was also on a rather special level. I opened an account (with my mother holding my hand) and got a beehive coin collector. Then the money started growing until we (my brother and I) discovered you can get the coins out with a knive from the slit on top (the bottom was locked).

    So it seems that past greed made me a poor man now.
     
    spuriousmonkey, Feb 23, 2005
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    bob-bobby Born Again ;) Registered Senior Member

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    i was one yr old the ...

    right said vslayer ...
     
    bob-bobby, Feb 23, 2005
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  10. cosmictraveler

    cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    I bought 200 shares for less than $ 200.00!

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    cosmictraveler, Feb 23, 2005
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  11. geodesic

    geodesic "The truth shall make ye fret" Registered Senior Member

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    I was then unconceived, so investment was a little beyond my means.

    Is it just me, or does the guy in the top left actually have no mouth?
     
    geodesic, Feb 23, 2005
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  12. Jinoda

    Jinoda Registered Senior Member

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    I too was unconceived, and remained that way for another 8 years. I do have to add though, that the guy behind Billy and in front of mouthless-man is a spitting image of my father (the same puppy-dog eyes).

    Maybe I'll see if I can bum some money off him next time he pops up.
     
    Jinoda, Feb 23, 2005
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  13. Communist Hamster

    Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    I couldn't have invested, even with hindsight, as like many others on this forum I had not been concieved.

    How could I have failed to notice our dear friend Bill?
     
    Communist Hamster, Feb 23, 2005
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  14. certified psycho

    certified psycho Beware of the Shockie Monkey Registered Senior Member

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    I would have probably would have. But seeing what the look like then forget.
     
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