Posted by Bill's News on 01/07/08 04:05

"JR" <igoturspaminmy@sat.nz> wrote in message
news:Vo1ej.53681$vd4.39196@pd7urf1no...
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> "T.B." <Partyslammer@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4777dc1f$1$10992$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> "POD {ҿ�}" wrote:
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>> (snip)
>>
>>> HD DVD fans are like Mac users, they feel so insecure about
>>> their wrong
>>> purchasing choice that they need to take swipes at the
>>> opposing
>>> technology.
>>
>> Too funny.
>>
>> T.B.
>
> Beta Ray fans are the same. All fangirls are the same no
> matter what they like.
> Remeber everyone claming Apple was going to go broke
> for..years..now they are massive and growing with stocks worth
> $200 a share. Pretty good for a company that was declared dead
> a million times :) I guess Apple/Steve Jobs owning Pixar helps
> a bit as well, and that ipod and imac stuff :)
>

I was fortunate to be among a group invited to PARC to see
"Lisa." Xerox was then desperate to rid themselves of all
computer related expenditures and I was totally awed at that
time by what today would appear juvenile. The company I
represented then did not see this as a viable investment. Steve
Jobs toured shortly thereafter. History tells the rest of the
story. Right up to the time it didn't happen, I thought Apple
and hyperlinks were the way to go. Then Al Gore invented the
internet, before going on to invent Swede-whelming, global
warming and it all became moot;-0)

BTW, this same company that I dealt with then also saw no future
in owning cell phone tower rights. Never-the-less, it was a fun
contract;-0)

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