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From: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Cost Of System Software
Message-ID: <594@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 19:25:38 GMT
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Reply-To: kik@wjh12.UUCP (Ken Kreshtool)
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Regarding whether to get Sys 7 free (or cheap from a users group) versus paying
$99 for Apple's kit with manuals.

There is another alternative that no one seems to have mentioned yet, one that
has been very popular with HyperCard 2.0: Get the disks
at the best possible price, and then wait for someone to publish a
how-to-use-it book.  These books usually come out toot sweet and cost around
$25.  I suppose if you are really cheap or broke, you can stand in the
bookstore and read, er, browse.

I'll probably go for the Apple offering because it supposedly includes
HyperCard 2.1 and the user groups distributions doesn't (says BCS*Mac).

Ken Kreshtool
kik@wjh12.harvard.edu