Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs.umn.edu!oleary
From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: May 13th Today
Message-ID: <3937@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 03:49:30 GMT
References: <1991May13.173422.25070@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <3914@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1211@mdavcr.UUCP>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
Lines: 38

In article <1211@mdavcr.UUCP> ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:
>>In article <1991May13.173422.25070@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> iijimam@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Mutsumi Iijima) writes:
>
>>PS:  Lay off Apple on this one.  System 7 is free (remember the whines about
>>how much it would cost?) even if you can't get it on day one.  If you want to
>>complain, there's the whole issue of 32-bit ROMs that we can chew them out
>>for.
>>

Actually, I wrote the above, so don't anybody get on Mutsumi Iijima's case.

>At least, it is free in the U.S.   Apple Canada is charging $120 for it.
>And No, that is *not* just if you want the manuals.  You *cannot* copy
>the disks for free.  I had a long argument with serveral authorized
>Apple dealers about this.

Can other people from Canada verify this?  It would seem awfully stupid
for Apple Canada to charge $120, seeing as you can get just the disks
from (perhaps) BMUG for $20-25 (don't know the exact price, I got System 7
free from the U of M's Microcomputer Center).

>Why they are doing this is beyond me, but I would gladly pay the money
>if I got to rip out an Apple Canada exec's lungs in the deal.

I suspect your dealers are just being jerks like ours are.  Apple's getting
a lot of grief for problems that just aren't their fault.  If anybody's
lungs should be removed, it looks like it's the dealers.

         ---------   Doc


**********************   Signature Block : Version 2.5  *********************
*                                     |   OK, one last time . . . This is   *
* "Was it love, or was it the idea    |   an egg . . . This is an egg in a  *
*  of being in love?" -- PF           |   frying pan . . . Any questions?   *
*    (BTW, which one *is* Pink?)      |                                     *
*                                     |   --->oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu<---     *
******************   Copyright (c) 1991 by Doc O'Leary   ********************