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From: AVRUNIN@cs.umass.EDU (George Avrunin)
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Subject: Celerity east coast offices closed?!
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Date: 1 Feb 88 21:18:00 GMT
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I just called the Boston office and got some kind of switchboard or
answering service.  I left a message for Roger Klorese.  A little while
later I got a call from someone in San Diego who said that Roger was no
longer with the company, as of Friday (!), indicated that nobody was in the
Boston office any more, and offerred to find out the information I wanted.  

Paul Lahti, from the Chemistry department here, then called the New Jersey
office.  He got a person who said she didn't know what was going on but had
been instructed to refer all calls to San Diego.  Paul then called San Diego
and was told that all the east coast offices had been closed, that all
support and service would now be handled out of San Diego, and that we will
be getting a letter (at some unspecified time in the future) explaining all
this.  

Does anybody have any idea what's going on?  Dan Mell was out here from the
Boston office last week to install some stuff for us and to install the 1260
that Chemistry just bought, and didn't indicate that he knew about anything
like this coming, and certainly nobody said anything about it while
Chemistry was ordering their new machine.  The idea of service from
San Diego makes us a more than a bit nervous, and the people in Chemistry
are really unhappy.

Does anybody know how shaky Celerity's financial situation really is?  Or
how they really expect to run service from San Diego?

George Avrunin				avrunin@cs.umass.edu
Department of Mathematics		avrunin@umass.bitnet
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA  01003