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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Upgrade gripes (not Apple) (Was: Quicken)
Message-ID: <63397@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 13 Nov 88 16:26:40 GMT
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In article <6161@netnews.upenn.edu> binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tim Binder) writes:
>In article <63213@ti-csl.CSNET> holland@m2.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes:
>>In article <6127@netnews.upenn.edu> binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Tim Binder) writes:
>>>
>Actually, my upgrade was from 1.0 or 1.1 to 1.4. Aren't they on 4.0 by now or
>something like that? My major problem here is that every single upgrade from
>Monogram (or whoever publishes it now) was $50 -- I was never notified of any
>that was less expensive (in fact I am no longer receiving mailings from them

Yes, I was thrown off when you mentioned 1.4.  I was referring to the upgrade
to 4.1c, which was $5.  And don't feel singled out because you don't get
mailings.  This was a "phone-in only" upgrade.

>at all). While the upgrade I did pay for included some minor improvements, it
>seems to me that most of the upgrades I have seen do not make major
>improvements to functionality -- they are frequently bug fixes. I remember
>discussions here earlier regarding Apple's "obnoxious" upgrade policy, but
>here is one I believe to be worse. (Note: I am not trying to single out

I don't want to stir up a debate, but, Apple's policy seems pretty good.
Assuming the dealers cooperate, you can bring your old disks to them for a
free upgrade.  We don't need no stinkin' manuals!

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
holland%ti-csl@csnet-rela

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.