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From: sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart Fleming)
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Subject: Re: The story behind what happened to System 7.0
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Date: 14 May 91 12:46:45 GMT
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In article <9502@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Brian Kendig) writes:
From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: The story behind what happened to System 7.0

>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.

>P.P.T.: FedEx, `lose' something?  The company that _never_ loses
>*anything*?  Sounds like a case of espionage to me...

The obvious question to ask here is : how many Macintoshes do FedEx have ?
About 1500 ?

| Brian S. Kendig      \ Macintosh |   Engineering,   | bskendig             |

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