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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CENTrader who wrote (8456)	6/15/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Mick Mørmøny	Respond to of 74651

REMEMBER WHEN Remember when....... A computer was something on TV >From a science fiction show... A window was something you hated to clean.... And RAM was the cousin of a goat..... MEG was the name of my girlfriend. And GIG was your middle finger upright. Now they all mean different things. And that really MEGA bytes. An application was for employment. A program was a TV show. A cursor used profanity. A keyboard was a piano. Memory was something that you lost with age. A CD was a bank account. And if you had a 3 1/2" floppy you hoped nobody found out. Compress was something you did to the garbage, not something you did to a file. And if you unzipped anything in public, you'd be in jail for a while. Log on was adding wood to the fire. Hard drive was a long trip on the road. A mouse pad was where a mouse lived. And a backup happened to your commode. Cut you did with a pocket knife. Paste you did with glue. A web was a spider's home. And a virus was the flu. I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper. And the memory in my head I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash. But when it happens they wish they were dead. ÿ From:Joke-of-the-day ÿ

To: CENTrader who wrote (8456)	6/15/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Then there's the one about . . . Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Steve Jobs and Craig McCaw are playing golf. With major-league egos involved, no one wants to be shown up, especially when it comes to technology. A phone rings and Craig McCaw quickly reaches into his pocket, pulls out a tiny phone and answers what must have been an important call. A few minutes later, Ted Turner stops in mid swing, puts an earpiece in his ear and starts speaking into his wristwatch about a megadeal going on somewhere. Only a few moments later, Steve Jobs simply begins speaking and listening, all the while continuing to play. "Latest thing - an implant in my jaw. Don't even have to interrupt my game!" But on the next tee, Gates suddenly drops his driver, steps over to his bag, takes out a roll of toilet paper, drops his pants and squats down; "This'll only take a minute - I have a fax coming in."