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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: April Fools catches unwary reader (was Re: System 7.0)
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Date: 2 Apr 91 21:44:43 GMT
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John Sculley speaks and the date of 1 Apr 1991.

Steve Goldfield

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
#>>
#>> [Archived as /info-mac/apple/sw.license/README.txt; 10K
#>>              /info-mac/apple/sw.license/70-install-1.hqx; 1172K
#>>              /info-mac/apple/sw.license/70-install-2.hqx; 902K
#>>	       /info-mac/apple/sw.license/70-utilities.hqx; 1464K
#>>	       /info-mac/apple/sw.license/70-fonts.hqx; 1022K
#>>	       /info-mac/apple/sw.license/70-printing.hqx; 879K]
#>> 
#>
#>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/