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To: SeekAndFind

So....people who invested in the Radio Telephone Company. Did they get rich, or did they lose their money?


2 posted on 04/28/2018 4:57:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Add to the list of you want. Here’s my addition:

“The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC,” said Bill Gates in a BusinessWeek article in 1984.

SOURCE: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-dumbest-things-bill-gates-ever-said-2016-4#the-next-generation-of-interesting-software-will-be-done-on-the-macintosh-not-the-ibm-pc-said-bill-gates-in-a-businessweek-article-in-1984-1


4 posted on 04/28/2018 4:59:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: BenLurkin

“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time,” Bill Gates said in 1987.


6 posted on 04/28/2018 5:00:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: BenLurkin

So....people who invested in the Radio Telephone Company. Did they get rich, or did they lose their money?

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From what I can find, it was a bust.

However they did sell some of their inventions to AT&T which would have been a great investment in the early 1900’s.


52 posted on 04/28/2018 8:12:12 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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