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- From: parkyn@fraser.sfu.ca (Dale Parkyn)
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <parkyn.724609082@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:18:02 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
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- >dividend. On the very same day, Apple Computer stock closed at 55
- >points per share, 4 points higher than that of Big Blue.
- *** Don't you wish you bought Apple a while back?
- *** Don't you wish you had any money NOW to buy IBM?
-
- >When the Apple Macintosh was first introduced, IBM derided this computer
- >as "a toy" claiming that mice were too difficult for users to comprehend
- *** The original Macintosh was 'useless'. That why it was quickly changed
- *** to the 512K, 512Ke, Plus. Now you have something that is 'starting'
- *** to become useful.
-
- >But who's laughing now? IBM is on the skids and scrambling to stay
- >alive. Apple Computer is experiencing record sales and revenues
- >thanks to their new Powerbook computers.
- *** Many companies are struggling to stay alive by changing products
- *** to meet growing needs for power-use by users.
-
- >institutions, IBM is suddenly finding it has to (gasp) compete and, if
- >it learns its lesson at all, will have learned it too late.
- *** IBM is such a varied product company. I suspect it knows how to
- *** compete. Not everyone who competes is going to finish first in
- *** everything they try.
-
- Dale's opinion's are only opinions. They vary depending on when I last ate.
- parkyn@sfu.ca
-
- ** Geez. I wish I had some money to invest in the stock of a company
- whose stock is at a LOW. You know - buy low sell high...
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