**OFF TOPIC – WORTHLESS ANECDOTE**
Don't you ever dream about discovering, and investing in, a company like EMC, INTEL, and MicroSoft at their embryonic stage?
Around 1982 a person I know very well gave some freebie advice to someone that they should buy Intel, an up and coming MEMORY CHIP maker. Well this person that took the advice was not one that spent a lot of time watching the market and knew very little about it, so after he called his broker and placed an order to buy 600 shares of Intel, trading around $30, he basically forgot about it. Unfortunately for him, the broker bought 600 shares of Inter-Tel, symbol INTL. You can see how easy this would be in an era of handwritten orders, my lazy "C"s look like "L"s sometimes too! Well nobody caught the mistake until years later and all that was done at the time was to sell the INTL at a severe loss. Today those 600 shares of INTC would have been 14,400 shares and worth $1,656,000.
Moral of story. Watch those "C"s and "L"s.
-Robert
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