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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: About to Power Up: Give 'em the money first?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.021836.3371@menudo.uh.edu>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 02:18:36 GMT

In article <1991Jun25.031909.14267@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco) writes:
>One datapoint:  I had to wait two weeks for mine, but was told that
>this was because I was 2nd on the list.
>
>See, the dealer has to process 1 A3000, wait for CBM to send another
>machine, and so forth...  My dealer said that at the rate things were
>going, she wouldn't be done with the deal until August.

Sounds like bullshit to me.   The crummy dealer I go to (only
shop in town) had a half-dozen A3000s (all power-up, he claimed)
show up at once, 4 were still there an hour later when I went to
pick up mine.


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