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From: dlh@polari.UUCP (dave holo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: $99 Quattro offer
Message-ID: <2474@polari.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 08:38:53 GMT
References: <366@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> <1990Sep3.003012.27082@agate.berkeley.edu> <378@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
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In article <378@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:
>In <1990Sep3.003012.27082@agate.berkeley.edu> cotner@skippy.berkeley.edu writes:
>ownership of some other spreadsheet package".  It's not clear whether one will
>actually be required to furnish such proof, or whether the previous software
>must run on the same system as Quattro.


I too got several of the letters, but I just tossed them ... this was several
months back .... then last weekend I happened to see one of the red stickered
boxes in a local software shop ....... the tag said "any version of" .... so
I took the supercalc disk I had for my old Osborne I cp/m machine and used it
to qualify for the $99 upgrade to Quattro for my 386.  I've been running an
early version of VP Planner which seemed to work for most of my needs, but I
just couldn't pass up "such a deal."  I'll have to admit, Quattro is an 
amazing product it's fast, easy, does great graphs, it's dot matrix drivers
are incredible, and it appears to be so well done that I have already 
started using it for applications that I previously would not have considered
spreadsheet problems. .... I'm impressed .... I can't compare it to current
Lotus, I haven't used it, but I would have to consider Quattro among the better
software products I own.

Anyway, at least for the red-stickered boxes at your local retailer, damn near
anything appears to qualify.


Dave