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From: kenn@Apple.COM (Kenn Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Free Floppy Drive For Cube Owners?
Keywords: Floppy PLI
Message-ID: <51342@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:29:33 GMT
References: <18106@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Apple Integrated Systems
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In article <18106@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ph600fbj@sdcc14.ucsd.edu (james dehnert) writes:
>In article <469@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us
>(Glenn Reid) writes:
>> 
>> I just got a card in the mail from NeXT that says the following:
>> 
>> "We've reserved a PLI SuperFloppy 2.8 disk drive for you--the
>perfect
>> complement to your new NeXT computer.  Free.  It's our way of
>saying
>> thanks, and welcoming you to the NeXT Generation.
>> 
>stuff deleted
>> 
>> It looks like they're ready to ship floppy drives to cube owners
>who
>> ordered the '040 upgrade.  Very nice.  And a nice gesture to have
>> NeXTconnection ship it (they ship things in a hurry).
>> 
>> I presume that lots of other people got one of these cards, too.
>
>  Has any one else got a card yet?  I'm curious as to who else is
>getting them.  I hope everybody is, and being a poor student I hope
>I am!!
>
>  Please let me know if you have been sent a card.
>  
>  Thanks,
>        Zeke

I haven't gotten anything of the like from NeXT, and in fact when I
bitterly complained to them about their silly policy of shipping my
upgrade to Mathematica, SYBASE, and LISP on floppy as opposed to OD (which
is all I have as original cube owner), all they said was "Sorry, please
talk to your sales representative and see if they can move it the OD for
you."

That's a pretty poor answer. I guess it was a little much to expect
reasonable support for upgrades to the original cube when the slabs came
out....

I hope I'm wrong, but I won't turn blue from holding my breath.

     kenn
-- 
"How can my employer be responsible for what I say, when he can't
understand me in the first place???" (i.e. Standard Disclaimer)
Kenneth E. Walker  			
Apple Integrated Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.