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From: PFREY%drew.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu
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Subject: Re: Commodore Stock
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Date: 8 Apr 91 05:56:16 GMT
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IN%"limonce@pilot.njin.net"  "Tom Limoncelli" writes:

>> Really?  In one of the previous message on this discussion regarding
>> Commodore stock, it has been stated that Commodore stock was released in
>> 1985 and its issued price was $4 per share.

>The Commodore PET was a popular computer in 1979.  Where did you get
>this information?

From the previous messages that have been put on this list.  They were sent
to all members of the list.  There's a way of getting messages from archives
of the lists.  You probably didn't get them, or you would have replied to them,
I'm sure.

>> I doubt very much the stock dropped from $90 to $4.  I tend to see
>> the other story as valid; that it was issued at $4, climbed to $19
>> over a period of 6 years, and is now shooting up with this Amiga
>> convention (to which I will be leaving in 5 minutes).

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>Of course, in the last 6 months many investors have taking CBM off
>that list and one or two have put it on the "buy" list.  The people
>that purchased stock at $4 must be very happy right now.

So long as they kept them.  If they sold them, imprints of their bodies might
be found in the concrete below their office windows.

                                        PFREY@DREW.BITNET

'If little Tom thumb had visions of limes and lemons running through his head,
 his peers would call him Tom Limonhead.'

Disclaimer:  Don't flame me.  I tend to get the last word.