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From: dlt@csun.UUCP (Dave Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Free system ugrade
Message-ID: <902@csun.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 15:08:36 EST
Article-I.D.: csun.902
Posted: Tue Nov 17 15:08:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 22:08:07 EST
References: <1987Nov16.110547.543@mntgfx.mentor.com> <960@hao.UCAR.EDU>
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Organization: California State University, Northridge
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Keywords: system free

In article <960@hao.UCAR.EDU> murphy@hao.UUCP (Graham Murphy) writes:
>
>    Having bought a MacII in September, my "authorized Apple reseller"
>informed me today that I can obtain the System 5.0 release for free
>just by filling in a card and sending it to Apple.
>
>    Basically, I don't think I will bother with it. Is this what Apple
>wants ? 

And here I've been sitting around, patiently waiting for a phone call
from my dealer telling me to come on down and pick up my free copy
of Multifinder (as had happened with Hypercard).  I'm not about to wait
three or four months for a $49 product.  Presuming that I can even find
it I suppose I'll end up shelling out the cash.  I want it, need it, 
today!!  (Actually, two months ago! :-))

I find it rather odd that we should even have to send in some certifi-
cate to obtain Multifinder.  One would think that they could get this
information from the registration card that I mailed in at the time
I bought the machine (MacII) in September and just send it out
directly.  I would have thought that information had been entered into
a database somewhere for easy access.  Maybe they only give the cards
out to the various unwanted glossies so that we can be inundated with 
subscription offers.  But then, again, perhaps it's only a case of
one department not talking to another.

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Dave Thompson		     uucp:   {ihnp4|hplabs|psivax}!csun!dlt
CSUN Computer Center         phone:  (818) 885-2790
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330