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From: howard@amdahl.amdahl.com (The Toolmaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Is dbase-mac vaporware?
Message-ID: <11013@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 17:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 17:55:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jul-87 02:30:02 EDT
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We all joke a bit about vaporware, but I have really seen it!  I stopped by
Fry's Elec. for a bit and while perusing the Mac software shelf, I saw a
stange box, well actually a sleeve for a box, on the top shelf.  What is
the sleeve for, dBase-Mac.  It looked interesting from the sleeve, but the
box, the software, the manuals; no where to be found.  The employees were as
helpful as ever; "huh, oh, let me check the shelf (like I hadn't), uh, I don't
know, let me go ask Floyd..."  Floyd is the localized black hole that sucks
up service people looking for answers.  Gad, I hate that place.
For a place that's supposed to have everything, my wife says they don't have
tissues, not even a mini kleenex pack. Floyd told her so. :-(  AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Sorry, just had to get that out of my system.  I guess Fry's is ok if you
just want to pick up a few memory chips; "no help, please."

So, has anyone seen dBase-Mac.  And congratulations to the guy who
received Word3.01 today.  You won. :-)
-- 
"Plan for the future because that's where you                Howard C. Simonson
    are going to spend the rest of your life." {hplabs,ihnp4,nsc}!amdahl!howard
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