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From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: May 13th Today
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Date: 15 May 91 08:32:49 GMT
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gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes:
|Cut him a break, Bill.  Remember, until just recently, Apple was known
|for having -lots- of an announced product out and available the day it
|was announced.

Obviously not a "Hundred Days" owner. I was convinced I was gonna wait
a hundred days to get my Macintosh (the original one).

(As for the Classics, Apple was pretty sure they had enough throughput
to keep up with demand. Surprise! They Like It!)

|Add those expectations to the amount of anticipation that Mac users
|have gone through for the last two years waiting for 7.0, and the
|taunts they've endured at the hands of their Windows-using
|adversaries, and a lot of us Usenet folk begin acting like whiny kids.

I certainly understand how you feel. I had to wait until the "fc"
betas before I could "test" it. But please understand that Apple will
acutally do a better job of getting 7.0 "out there" than with almost
any other product they've shipped. Most of you should have it within a
week, and the early polls predict that within a year, over THREE
MILLION MACHINES will be running 7.0. 

|Latebreaking news flash.  While I was writing this post, the OSU
|Computer Store called.  My copy of System 7.0 is in!

Goshes, I love happy endings.

bill coderre
hundred days owner and damn proud of that