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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: WD2010 group buy, call for ORDER and $$$
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Date: 2 Sep 89 21:17:21 GMT
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UNIXPC WD2010 group buy update, 2-Sept-1989.

Whew.  Double whew!  It NOW appears everyone has received their ordered chips.
Seems the USPS has again deserved being called "US Snail".  Of packages mailed
the SAME day from the SAME post office near my office in California, one took
only 2 days to get to Ohio and another required 18 days to get to Florida; and
these were ALL First Class.  Seems some were being treated by some post offices
along the way as "parcel post".  :-(     If you haven't received your chips by
now, let me know.

Also, it appears that two chips (of the 180) are defective (per reports from
two people).  Since I don't have any spares for exchange, I'm going to contact
the vendor on Tuesday (Monday is a holiday) and see what can be arranged.  If
you haven't tried your chip(s) yet, please see if you can find the time to do
so in the near future, and let it run in your system for at least 30 minutes,
and report via email to me if there are any problems.  Again, to be safe, do a
file backup before swapping chips "just in case".

Thad

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]