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Apple's Long Road To $300
itwbennett writes "Apple shares inched over $300 for the first time Wednesday, nearly 30 years after Apple's initial public offering in December 1980. But it hasn't been a steady climb. In fact, says blogger Chris Nurney, 'Apple's stock history can be divided into two clear periods — the early years, from the IPO through Steve Jobs's long absence from the company after losing a power struggle in 1985, and the modern Jobs era, which began on September 16, 1997.' The bottom line: 'If you had purchased $10,000 of Apple stock the same month that Jobs again began leading the company, your shares would be worth $554,000 today. Not a bad return on the investment.'"
<quote><p> And to people using NT back then, Mac must have been a really bad joke.</p></quote>
No, Windows NT was not always better. I had 5 macs on OS 9 running one application combining: applescript, filemaker, photoshop, the predecessor of ImageJ, a scanner and a shared printer with permanently 30' in the buffer. With only one unstable Mac. By lack of Macs I had to add two NT PCs who implemented the first step of the process with only a scanner and photoshop, and there the trouble began as the PCs had a downtime of 20%.