I wasn't asking you to put on your historian's hat ;-) I did have the sale price wrong, though; it was $175 million.

http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1992/9203250069.asp

>He has been collecting violins for a long time. I don't remember how much MS paid for Fox Software.
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>>I think Dr. Dave has been doing this for a long time, ever since around the time Microsoft bought Fox Software. $400 million, wasn't it?