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Old 11-08-2005, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MTI
I still grin at the old stories about how the head of Digital Research blew off a meeting with some IBM reps looking for a small computer OS . . . so instead they went north to a small company near Seattle . . .
I worked for a small Seattle contractor in '87, he had a niche gig of rebuilding apt. decks that had rotted away.

For about a week, every morning he'd come in saying something like, "Jeez, my Microsoft stock is up another point and a half!" After a while I'm thinking, "Yeah, yeah, shut the F up..." Only the hottest stock tip of the century and I'm sneering at the guy. Oh, I'm a smart one all right.
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