Subj : Re: BBS to Internet in the 90's
To   : Bucko
From : Rug Rat
Date : Wed Jun 24 2026 19:45:25

On Wed 24-Jun-2026  7:00p, Bucko@64:500/5.0 said to Rug Rat:

B> Off topic here, in 1993 I had a chance to purchase Quantum Services Stock
B> because there was an underground movement to buy 51% of the stock and take
B> over the company. IT was selling for less then $2 a share, people were
B> buying hundreds if not thousands of shares. When I went to my wife for
B> $1000 for stock she said no, the company will be out of business sooner
B> then you think and we don't have the money to throw away. Well that stock
B> flipped to AOL and if I would have bought a 1000 shares, for $2k that
B> investment would have been worth close to if not over 1 million dollars by
B> year 2000!! Such is life!

That reminds me that I was thinking about maxing out a charge card on a cash advance to buy Apple stock as they were about to go bankrupt in 96.  I figured my dad would have killed me and stopped myself.....   

Though with the way my stock trading goes (as soon as I buy into a stock it goes down until I sell....).  So it probbably would have actually gone bankrupt had I done that..

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