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Politics : Ask Michael Burke

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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (70977)11/25/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: re3  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
looks like this poster knows that Warren B agrees with ME about new technology usurping old technology...<g>

What Buffett means is: "I understand tech..... I understand that ANYONE could come along with a new patented technology and cause a mega cap CSCO to implode. I understand that new technology comes along every day which obsoletes existing technology."

boards.fool.com

and from the mootley fool...

Just to remind some of the boo-birds, here are some technology stocks you could have invested in over the past 20 years or so . . .

Osborne Computer
Eagle Computer
Visicorp
Control Data
Comdisco
Kendall Square Computing
Cray
Miniscribe
MediaVision
WordPerfect
Borland
AST
Packard-Bell
Ashton-Tate
Masscomp
GCA
Itel
3DO
General Magic
DEC
Data General

funny i think mike burke has mentioned many of these too...

wonder how many of todays darlings will be on the list for 2009 ? or earlier ho ho ho
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