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Subject: Re: Programmer's switch
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 22:02:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 22:02:03 1984
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From: Nick <NNicoll.ES@XEROX.ARPA>

Re: Programmer's switch

Anybody give me some tips on insalling that sucker.  I can't get the
tabs to fit thru the cooling vent.

Re: Never listen to dealers.  They know almost nothing except whether
they have a certain product in stock.

I second that emotion.  Don't even listen to dealers if they say they
do/don't have something in stock.  I'm fairly happy with my local
Computique store and (probably because I paid cash for the first 512K
Mac he sold) the manager will go out of his way to be helpful to me BUT;

I can't trust the other people who work there to give me straight
information on stock, they seem to try to figure out the answer I would
like to hear and then give that and

at two local software houses I was told on the phone they did not have
the item I was requesting but, when I stopped to buy some disks on my
way home from work it was sitting on their shelves  (I drove over to the
second store just to see).  I asked each store if they had had a
delivery today and got "No, are you looking for something special?".

<<plaintive tone>> when will (especially automotive and computers but
all stores, really) dealers give remote access to their open stock
situation?

\\ Nick