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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DAK sets itself up for massive losses
Message-ID: <6492@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 89 16:08:41 GMT
References: <10790@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <6432@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <2876@phred.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <2876@phred.UUCP> stevel@phred.UUCP (Steve Leach) writes:
>In article <6432@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>>In article <10790@thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech@degas.cs.unc.edu () writes:
>>>In the Winter '90 DAK catalog, they offer a 12 MHz 286 system with...
>>Well they could be finicky about the "equivalent system", requiring you
>>to find the exact same unit.
>If memory serves the form which you need to fill out to submit your
>"system" had only one space for store or merchant.  This indicated
>to me at least that you need to find the equivalent system in one
>store and not put one together from pieces.

A friend of mine had the catalog, so I looked. Not only does it say that 
you can use multiple vendors, but also you don't have to find the exact
product, but can use an equivalent (I'd certainly get the mouse with a
bundled paint program and count it as the mouse and the separate paint
program). Anyway, it does look honest, with no "gotchas."

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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