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Subject: Re: Claris HC vss Apple's freebe
Summary: poster got more than SE buyers should
Keywords: Oct. '90, Claris, Apple, Hypercard
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Date: 1 Feb 91 20:19:11 GMT
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In article <395@rc6.urc.tue.nl> wsinrobg@eutws1.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes:
>In article <48639@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
writes:
>>The version of HyperCard 2.0 that's bundled with new CPUs includes the
[stuff delted]

>Well, right from the horse's mouth but....
>I got the Apple HC2.0 package via a standing order when buying my SE in a pre
>Oct 15 sale. It includes a Home stack---not crippled; but only one---help
>stacks, power and example stacks. Also 4 manuals: the 35p pamphlet, a user
>guide, a ref manual to HC2.0 browsing and authoring and an intro to scripting;
>no Adisson-Wesley stuff though. This seems like a cross between the new
bundled
>version and the Claris one, Claris being the dominant.

Looks like you got yours before the announcement that Claris would be
distributing HC and take over support and development.  Or, perhaps, Claris
does not have it in Europe?
>
>In other words what exactly did I get?
>On a separate track: does all this entitle me to the free Claris upgrade to
>2.0v2?
>
It surely sounds like you have as much entitlement to a free upgrade as anyone.
>-- 
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