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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BLand is foo!
Message-ID: <1748@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 17 Jun 91 05:43:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.035016.18892@wdl1.wdl.loral.com>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Jun17.035016.18892@wdl1.wdl.loral.com>
	mdm@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Mike D Marchionna) writes:
>   On top of not getting 2.1 at this late date, I check the upgrade cards for
>Mathematica and Common Lisp in my 2.0 upgrade and find the offer dates have
>all expired.

Don't panic.  There's ANOTHER upgrade card in the '040 upgrade
kit, and it doesn't expire until December.

>                                             Not that I would be able to do
>anything with the upgrades since I have no floppy drive.  Further there is no
>way for me to get the 2.1 upgrade.

NeXT *will* provide 2.1 on optical.  We're supposed to get some
next week.  (We'll see.)

>                      The only way I can be happy now is if BLand folds, and I
>can dance on their grave.

Bad news: they've been rescued by a company that runs computer
stores on the [U.S.] east coast.

					-=EPS=-