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From: kateley@Apple.COM (Jim Kateley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: $ & Sense 4.0 Upgrade--VaporWare?
Message-ID: <8450@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 17 Apr 88 18:06:02 GMT
References: <1729@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: kateley@apple.UUCP (Jim Kateley)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1729@ut-emx.UUCP> jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) writes:
>
>	About 6 weeks ago I received an announcement that the all
>new, fantastic version 4.0 of Dollars and Sense was now available--and
>for registered users a mere $50 too!!

At least they let you know about it, I had to call them
countless times before I got thru and could order it!

>	The brochure promised a 2-3 week delivery if you called the 800
>number ( 800-443-0100). Well I did...and they billed my credit card...
>but it didn't arrive :-((. I called today and they said they "found bugs"--
>in the code. Gee whiz, can you imagine that? I wonder if they've heard
>of the time honored programmers method called "debugging" :-)( ?

There were some nasty bugs in 4.0, the main one for me was it bombing
in the middle of a session under Multifinder!
 
>	Well the word from them is that the shipping date is still 2-3 
>weeks away if you are naive enough to buy that!

This is news to me, I received version 4.0 about 4 weeks after I 
ordered it, and then about a month after that I received 4.1
automatically!!  The postmark on my 4.1 disk is March 16th.
This was suprising, as I had given up on 4.0
and its bugs, and I had not gotten around to calling them
and asking what was going on.

>
>	Beware.

4.1 seems to work ok, but I'm still going by SEAO (save early and often...)
									
>				Jim Meiss				
>		 		jdm@emx.utexas.edu
>				jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA
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