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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: $99 Quattro offer
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Date: 4 Sep 90 08:35:48 GMT
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dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:

> In <1990Sep3.003012.27082@agate.berkeley.edu> cotner@skippy.berkeley.edu writ
>
>>(* I don't know if Borland considers 'qualified' to mean only previous
>>customers, or anyone with $99.)

> As far as I can tell, "qualified" for this offer means "able to demonstrate
> ownership of some other spreadsheet package".  It's not clear whether one wil
> actually be required to furnish such proof, or whether the previous software
> must run on the same system as Quattro.

Where's that junk mail when I need it.  Title page of documentation, original
disk, etc.  I think that's what they required.  I'd like to send in my copy
of Framework II, but that wasn't on their list of 'approved' packages. |-(