The data are closing prices, adjusted for splits, of Microsoft stock from
the initial public offering through November 16, 2000.  A Fortran read
statement is

  read(u14,'(i4,i2,i2,1x,f8.4)') yyyy,mm,dd,msft

where yyyy is the year, mm the month, dd the day, and msft the closing
price.

The first and last observations and a ruler are
19860313   0.1944
20001116  68.9375
....:....1....:....2....:....3....:....4....:....5....:....6....:....7..

The data were obtained from Yahoo's web site.