Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!umduddr0 From: umduddr0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Brendan Duddridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 Keywords: mac, system 7 Message-ID: <1991May19.191154.11505@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 19 May 91 19:11:54 GMT References: Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 30 In jschwart@parker.rutgers.edu (Jeff Schwartz) writes: >I have been trying for days to get system 7.0. The local apple >dealers are more than happy to SELL it to me for 99.95 if and when >they ever get it. One was even willing to let me download it from his >server for the low low price of 50.00 I tried ftp.apple.com and that >has proven to be even more frustrating. Is there an easier way (aside >from scrapping the mac and geting something built around a 386?) >Thanks in advance >-Jeff >(Amateur Call: KA2QOU) So what you're saying is that because a dealer won't give you a FREE copy of System 7 (which he is NOT obliged to do), you'll go out and buy an MS-DOS system instead? What the hell is wrong with people? Is Microsoft GIVING AWAY Windows 3.0??? NO! Then why should Apple? But they are... You just have to be patient and wait until you can get a copy by whatever means you like. Try downloading it from America Online or CompuServe or Genie. But I gather you're just too DAMN cheap to bother paying for those services either! Everything in this world costs somebody money. It's not right for a dealer to let any Joe Blow walk off the street and come in and copy 8-12 disks for nothing. Would you let anyone walk off the street into your home and demand that you give them System 7 for nothing (legal issues aside)? All I can say is go ahead and buy your MS-DOS piece of crap, because we don't need people like you in the Macintosh community. Brendan Duddridge umduddr0@ccu.umanitoba.ca