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From: strange@sprite.berkeley.edu (Steve Strange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.210505.17847@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:05:05 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.202156.7857@cs.dal.ca> paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca (Nuno M. Paixao) writes:
>I just saw the following posted in a comp.sys.mac.digest posting.
>
>> 
>> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1991 19:05:07 PST
>> From: "J. Sculley" <moof@apple.com>
>> Subject: [*] System Software 7.0
>>
>> Greetings and salutations, erstwhile netters.
>>
>> Please enjoy downloading the latest release of our system software.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> J. Sculley
>>
>So I promptly FTPed to SUMEX, and found out that the sw.license software
>does not exist. Was it posted in another directory. If not, does anybody
>know if any other sites got it? I tried APPLE.COM and couldn't find anything/
>

This was clearly an April Fool's joke.  Note the posting was apparently from
John Sculley, Apple CEO!  BTW, no, I was not the prankster :-).

	Steve Strange
	UC Berkeley