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From: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard)
Subject: Re: Charge for upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0?
Message-ID: <1991May18.194101.18131@unixg.ubc.ca>
Keywords: to be free or not to be free?
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Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 19:41:01 GMT

In article <12152@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim) writes:
>So I called up Elek-Tek and their price for
>version 1.3 SE is $109.  I asked about an upgrade to 2.0 and they said
>it WOULDN'T BE FREE.  In fact, it would cost another $109.  Strangely,
>they couldn't give me the price they planned to charge for 2.0.  They
>expected 2.0 to be released sometime this fall, and they characterized
>the date as firm.

Your dealer doesn't know what they're talking about.  There has been no
announcement of 2.0, so there is NO firm release date.  But IBM have said
they expect it to be released towards the end of this year. 

At the IBM publicity shows that have taken place around North America
over the past few weeks, they have said puplicly again and again that
the upgrade to 2.0 will be free (for a limited time).  And I have it 
on videotape too. They've also said that the retail price if you aren't
upgrading will be under $200US.  
 
Considering how many people IBM have said this to at publicity shows, 
the press releases they've sent out about it, the FTN video tape of the 
New York demonstrations, etc., I wonder why there is so much incorrect 
informations being passed around by so many dealers!


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