I discovered AIM via Mr. Lichello's infomercial.
It was a middle of the night serendipitous moment for sure.
I was immediately fascinated by it.
Probbaly mid to late 80's or so. Don't recall exactly.
Some time later my father in law came to Texas for a visit and handed the cassette tapes and 3 ring binder to me, asking me "to find the fatal flaw in this system, because I can't."
I explained to him that I saw that informercial too, but didn't want to part with the $300 to buy it.
So I went to a bookstore and purchased the paperback.
Still intrigued, I hand entered stock prices in Lotus 123 to test it with real life stocks. Got the stock price history from the library!
Obviously did not find any fatal flaws, but did balk at the large trade sizes as programs grew over time. I was not an active investor back then so it seemed very risky to me.
Once I got connected to the web (mid 90's), I searched for AIM and found Tom and the rest of the gang on Silicon Investor (which has since migrated to iHub).
Both my father in law and I met up with Tom since he doesn't live very far from my hometown.
Been hanging out here ever since.
We've misplaced the tapes but I still have the binder (which I showed off at our first AIM gathering in Vegas, in May, 2000).
Geez! It's been 14 years since that get-together.
Best Regards, Steve (The Grabber)
