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Subject: Re: Hypercard - How About New Mac Owner
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 10:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 24 10:42:00 1987
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Aug 24 09:42:00 1987


Since I started this thing, I'd like to finish it.

1.  I was not apple-bashing.  Knowing only what I hear on the net, I was
sincerely interested in hearing why Apple was charging for this.

2.  I was not aware that Hypercard was 4 disks with a manual.  As many of you
pointed out, cost for that has to be about $25 to apple.  I assumed Hypercard
was only going to be a single program.  I'm glad to be corrected.

3.  I did not know that it was going to be posted.  (Downloading
it from Compuserve may not be economical at $12/hr, but downloading from
GEnie at $5/hr definitely is, even if the distribution is 3MB.  (Of
course, I wouldn't get the printed manual.)  My local dealers are so bad
(I once waited at a cash register for fifteen minutes with employees
wandering about the store, not bothereing to wait on me) that I grudge
them the $20 they'd make, so I'll probably download it.

4.  My point was more, "why bother to charge for the thing if you're only
going to charge $50?", not, "why charge for it at all?".  The consensus
seems to be for the manual and for the dealers, which is reasonable to
me.

I'm sorry if people took my message as a flame.  It was not.  I
appreciate the way apple has treated its customers.
----
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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