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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 2467260, member: 127"]
One of my biggest and dumbest regrets revolves around Lotus 123. In the early 1980’s a good friend of mine was working for a software firm in Syracuse. I was an accountant whose company was looking to install company wide spreadsheet software, deciding mainly between VisiCalc and supercalc. I was on the committee deciding which one and asked my friend if she had either of these spreadsheet software to look at before the company’s official IBM’s spreadsheet presentation. She asked me to come to her company on a Saturday and said I could use their computers to look at what they had.

Long story short, in shrink wrap was a beta copy of a new spreadsheet option, Lotus 123, they had never opened. Included was a prospectus for Lotus offering shares for a nickel, yes 5 cents a share. We had a good laugh over it , I opened it , ran it and was shocked at how easy and good the software was. She said I could take it with me, they didn’t need it. It wasn’t coming out for sale for another few months though. I shocked IBM in the meeting when I mentioned Lotus 123 because it wasn’t public yet. As a result, we waited till it came out and made it our spreadsheet choice. i was a mini hero. I stayed poor because I ignored the prospectus which we had thrown away back at my friend’s firm , my thought process tunnel-visioned only as an employee not an investor. If I had invested only $5.oo I would have had a minimum of $1800 which was the stock price when it first went public in 1983. I know the stock price eventually rose to over $85 a share.  Uggh. Dumb, dumb, dumb
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