HP Forum Archive 11

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Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #1 Posted by Steve on 17 Mar 2003, 9:33 a.m. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11713&item=3012513554&rd=1 Imagine you bought 1000 of these at cost in the 80's! Wow, Steve

Re: Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #2 Posted by Frank Wales on 17 Mar 2003, 4:08 p.m., in response to message #1 by Steve Then you'd have been Zengrange. :-) I believe the production run was 1,000 units, and I think that's all that got made. As I said to one of the other programmers the other day, we need to figure out a way to get a royalty on these prices. :-)

Re: Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #3 Posted by David Smith on 17 Mar 2003, 6:01 p.m., in response to message #1 by Steve If you had bought 1000 of them back when they were new, you would have lost money big time... I think they were around $300 new. Only doubling your money over a 20 year time frame is a rather poor investment.

Re: Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #4 Posted by Frank Wales on 17 Mar 2003, 8:38 p.m., in response to message #3 by David Smith Actually, Zenrom was 99 dollars from EduCalc, according to Datafile V3N6. Still, had just one person bought them all at the time, I guess they wouldn't be so sought-after now. :-)

Re: Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #5 Posted by Chris Catotti (Florida) on 17 Mar 2003, 10:18 p.m., in response to message #4 by Frank Wales My wife gave me a big hug when three years ago I sold my extra one on ebay for $127.00 ... sigh.

Re: Forget Yahoo, here's where I wish I invested my money! Message #6 Posted by Patrick on 17 Mar 2003, 11:57 p.m., in response to message #5 by Chris Catotti (Florida) Well, you might have gotten less money, but certainly better "interest".

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