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Subject: Accurate Info for your column
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 03:56:27 EDT
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Date: Thu 3 May 84 18:52:41-PDT
From: uw-beaver!ERIK@SRI-AI.ARPA
Subject: Accurate Info for your column
To: Pourne@MIT-MC.ARPA
Cc: Info-Mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA

Dear Jerry,

Here's some accurate information for next week's column.

1.  The external 3 1/2 " drive for Macintosh will be available for sale at all
dealers next week.  The Sony drives are extremely reliable, and failure
rates are very low.

2.  Currently there are 9 applications out for Macintosh:
  MacWrite, MacPaint from Apple;
  MultiPlan and Basic from Microsoft;
  MAGICPhone by Artsci;
  ClickArt by T/Maker Graphics;
  MacForth by Creative Solutions;
  Transylvania by Penguin Software;
  and MegaMerge by MegaHaus.

In May developers expect to ship ten applications (including Microsoft
Chart), and in June there should be at least 35 additional applications (eg.
Macintosh Pascal).

3. All Apple products are under 90 day warranty.  All Dealers are required
to stock spare parts for our computers.  The Macintosh reliability rate has
been extremely high.  I'm surprised to hear that this particular person has 
had trouble with servicing his Macintosh.  If he would call Apple (Donna
Dubinsky, Manager of Distribution) in Cupertino I'm sure she would be
more than happy to help solve the problem.

Hope you continue to enjoy your Macintosh.

Barbara Koalkin
Macintosh Product Marketing Manager
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