 Axiom Anniversary
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So, Axoim, just when is your 25th? Also, are there any new releases to announce?
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So no one bit it three days, eh? Oh bother.....
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shareholder in the making
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1979 Ian Colquhoun builds his first set of loudspeakers in a friend's garage and another friend asks to buy them immediately. The idea germinates. . .
In theory it has already happened... 
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hey?- isnt that the microsoft story?
bigjohn
EXCUSE ME, ARE YOU THE SINGING BUSH??
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Re: Axiom Anniversary
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Apple Computer and Gateway Computers actually....
Gates did not have a garage, he had everything handed to him with a silver spoon
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Technically, didn't he take his silver spoon, dip it into everyone elses stuff, steal it away, and then call it his own, only to go on and sell it under the M$ brand and make tons on $?
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That too...
Gates came from an already very wealthy family (oil money, I think). His father had connections at IBM, on the board if I remember correctly, which was where the sweetheart deal with IBM and the first billion came from.
Everything else, he did by himself 
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I'm guessing that IBM didn't take Gates or his DOS very seriously until Charley Chaplin came along pushing stacks of floppies on TV. Backward compatibility I believe. Yup, VHS-Beta alright. I suspect the success of that ad campaign supprised even Gates.
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I don't really like Gates myself, but I don't understand why everyone feels the need to bash him (actually I do, jealousy )
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Well, the post was sitting there and the title seemed appropriate , soooo I just noticed that I signed on here one year and one day ago.
My first birthday!
Plus, I have the hairline of a 1 year old as well.
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