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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (123935)7/29/2010 2:24:17 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
One of the first two stocks I tried. I bought 10, count them, 10 shares of a small co. while I was in my first year in the Army in Monterey at Language School. It cost $40 per share plus an $86 minimum commission. Don't laugh. My salary was $120 a month as a PFC. It was called Medtronic. My broker was Walston & Co., later bought by Ross Perot and later bankrupt and saved by Merrill Lynch. I never feared for Medtronic, but I lived constantly in fear that my broker would go broke. <G> Ampex was the other one. If I'd only bought Ampex, I would be 100% in bank CDs today. <VBG>
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