Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hplabs!amdahl!howard From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Retailer drops Mac Message-ID: <2972@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 04:08:50 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.2972 Posted: Fri Mar 28 04:08:50 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 04:50:53 EST References: <1605@sdcsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson) Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group Lines: 20 Keywords: Incompetence Obselesence Shoddy Sears Summary: At last some *GOOD* news In article <1605@sdcsvax.UUCP> jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West) writes: > Without comment, from today's Wall Street Journal: > CHICAGO--Sears, Roebuck & Co. said it is discontinuing sales > of Apple Compter Inc.'s Macintosh computer systems at its > 103 Business Systems Centers. At last some *GOOD* news. A retailer like Sears could give Macintosh a bad name. I have one basic rule that governs my purchases at that establishment: Only buy something that has no moving parts. This leaves Craftsman(tm) tools and the candy counter :-) This is of course my opinion and should probably be posted to net.consumers. -- Time for a new catchy phrase in my Howard C. Simonson .signature, now if I could only ...{dragon,hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard think of one... [ Opinion? What opinion. I think you have the wrong guy... ]