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To: LTK007 who wrote (28)	8/16/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: freelyhovering	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 115

max90--Great question. I recently ask a similar one on yahoo chat. I don't think I got an answer yet. Myron

To: LTK007 who wrote (28)	8/16/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Silicon Trader	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 115

I found this post last week, somewhere on SI regarding your question. bRiAn (6196 ) From: JAKE Monday, Aug 10 1998 11:47PM ET Reply # of 6199 Why do I invest in BB's? See the four BB's below............ MCI .25 cents NOW 63 1/8 Toys"R"Us .99 cents NOW 21 13/16 Tandy .63 cents NOW 56 1/8 Dell .95 cents NOW 110 I havent checked to see if the numbers are exactly correct, but this person thought so <G> !!! GO NRAG MBA $$$

To: LTK007 who wrote (28)	8/16/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 115

max90, are their any longterm success stories where a company moves from the BBs to the Big Boards to go on to be "famous"? A really, really good question. Someone made the statement a few weeks ago on another thread that Microsoft had started out as a penny stock. This statement was either a blatant lie or a gross error in judgement by the poster. (FWIW, Microsoft started selling at around $28 or so on its' IPO. The erroneous poster was referring to magazine articles that had stated that Microsoft was selling for a split-adjusted 40 cents on its' IPO. S/he opted to overlook the phrase split-adjusted.) After thinking about the Microsoft error for a little bit, I went out looking for a non-reporting, OTC-BB success story. So far, I've found none. Not a single one. I'm sure that somewhere there must exist some company that succeeded, but I haven't found it yet. Perhaps the success stories (if any) get bought out by bigger companies before they achieve even a modicum of fame, and then lose their unique identities under the name of some conglomerate. I don't know that to be a fact though. Just my speculation at this point. More research needs to be done. And I was looking solely at non-reporting companies.

To: LTK007 who wrote (28)	8/16/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 115

The greatest one I know of is IOM ( old IOMG) 5 years ago if one put $1000 into it they would be Millionaires now. Joe