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From: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (73539000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: sources for STACKS
Summary: ACKPPHHHT! NOT EDUCOMP!!!
Message-ID: <1980@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 88 05:32:16 GMT
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Reply-To: alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; CATS
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Don't know much about Budget Bytes, but Educomp blatently rips off stupid
Macintosh owners. They have the nerve to charge $10 for a disk of public
domain and shareware type software. They also claim to be a user group.
They are a FOR-PROFIT institution, and they provide ALMOST NO user group
support features. For stacks, I would recommend that you contact The
Berkeley MAcintosh User Group at (415)549-BMUG for info, or The Boston
Computer Society at (617)625-7080 for info. These are the two largest
user groups in the Macintosh community, and the BCS is the largest in the
world, unless the Soviet Ministry of Education counts. These groups charge
nominal supply and materials/shipping charges of $3-$5 per disk. (Can't
recall the BMUG price specifically, but BCS is $4 for one 800K disk chock
full of stuff, I know I used to layout/deisgn the contents of BCS disks. :-) )

Summary: Find a REAL user group that cares!

Special Edition Disclaimer: Non-Profit user groups cannot lobby for support
of any sort. Therefore I am forced to say that neither group is responsible
for what I say, although deep down inside, they all agree with me.


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