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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: The story behind what happened to System 7.0
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Date: 13 May 91 21:44:07 GMT
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Apparently there was a slight screwup with delivering System 7.0 to
the East Coast.

I hear that Apple shipped 500 copies of the System 7.0 Personal
Upgrade Kit and 200 copies of the Group Upgrade Kit to each of
Charlotte, North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts last Friday via
Federal Express.  (These were the pre-ordered copies of System 7.0.)

Come Monday, they weren't there.  Seems that FedEx lost them.

Federal Express promptly apologized -- boy, did they ever apologize!
-- and are making it up to Apple by providing something like three
months' free overnight delivery and some other assorted grovelling.

Meanwhile, other cities should have received their copies.  Has anyone
out there in netland actually gotten your own copy of System 7.0
Release, or are you too busy playing with it to post yet?

(Or are you being smart after having realized that the first person to
post `I have System 7!' is going to be FLOODED with email asking `can
you please email me a copy please please i wont tell nobody!?')

     << Brian >>

P.T.: This is only a story I caught wind of; it might not be
completely kosher, but if it is you heard it here first!

P.P.T.: FedEx, `lose' something?  The company that _never_ loses
*anything*?  Sounds like a case of espionage to me... if you happen to
see any Innately Bureaucratic Men in dark alleyways carrying lots of
boxes, report them!

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