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From: king@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Jim King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Apple memory upgrade backlog
Message-ID: <793@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 88 20:04:22 GMT
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Organization: UW MathStat, Seattle
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Keywords: A questionnaire.  How long? How long?


I am curious to learn how long people have been having to wait to get
memory upgrades from Apple.  I ordered a 2 meg memory upgrade for my Mac+ 
through my University in October and I am still waiting.

I understand that there really is a SIMM shortage, so I have a certain
amount of sympathy for Apple's position, but I also have the feeling
that there are a lot of megabit SIMMs being shipped with AUX machines.

Anyway, I would like to run a survey.  I will tally the results and
post.  If you have ordered megabit SIMMs from Apple since they dropped
the price in the fall, please tell me when you ordered them and when
you got them (if you have).  Also, please say whether you ordered them
from a dealer, through a university, or whatever.  As I say, if there
are responses I will post a summary.  Please send me mail rather than
posting this.

I wonder if Apple has thought about the fact that the people they are
trying to impress by shipping AUX may be the same people who are
waiting for memory upgrades for lowly Mac Plusses.  Now we segue into
that classic flame--why doesn't Apple reward its old supporters by . .
. etc. etc. .  ( |-), I think.)

Maybe Apple can bundle Fullwrite with the memory upgrades.  The two
items seem to have the same shipping date. |-), for sure.

Jim King

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James King
Dept of Math
Univ of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195