Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!tosh!starta From: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The story behind what happened to System 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 15:32:59 GMT References: <9502@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (John Starta) Distribution: usa Organization: Micro Orchard Co., Phoenix, Arizona, USA Lines: 35 bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: > 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. Sounds like a fish story to me! With the package tracking technology FedEx has, it is impossible to loss a package in their system, not to meantion over 700 of 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. ROTFLOL! From minnow to marlin; this [fish] story is getting better by the moment. > (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!?') Uh huh. :) John -- John A. Starta Internet: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Chief Technologist UUCP: ...ncar!noao!asuvax!tosh!starta Micro Orchard Co. AOL: AFA John; CompuServe: 71520,3556