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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (28092)	2/21/2000 9:46:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

Charles - I'm with you - in the 70s and 80s I felt like I had a good year if my investments beat a bank CD... in the early 90s I started to see substantial appreciation, and in 95, 96 and 97 saw more than 100% return. 98 was about 50%, and despite a loss in half of my portfolio because of my DELL and CPQ positions, 99 delivered close to 40% overall. I don't think I am a great investor... so it must be that the climate for success was good. One could say that the techs were a big part of that but I was heavy into tech in the 80s also... I think Frank must live in a parallel universe next to ours, with the posts leaking through to our world. In that world, Charlz Tatt is a conservative investor heavily into gold stocks, the crash of '87 created a depression which made the US a third world country, fairchild decided the planar process was going nowhere so integrated circuits never happened, there are less than 1000 computers in existence in the world, Bill Gates stayed at Harvard and went into his father's bank, Scott McNealy is a struggling professional hockey player, and a guy named rudecat gives advice to retired people about municipal bond strategies...