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From: ted@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ted Jardine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Ashton Tate Developer Invitation Snafu
Message-ID: <2676@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 22:55:23 GMT
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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A couple  of weeks ago  I received an announcement from Ashton Tate
inviting  me to apply for membership  as an A-T Developer.   I sent
the  reply card back,  indicating that I owned a Macintosh II color
system.   Last Friday  I received the application kit from A-T.  It
contained  a description  of the  requirements  for  membership,  a
5.25  inch diskette in MS-DOS  format on which were questions to be
answered  and forms  to be completed,  and a card to request a copy
of a book they were selling for $19.95 plus shipping and sales tax.

What puzzled  me were two things.   First,  why send the owner of a
Mac II  a diskette for an IBM PC?  And,  second, why do the ask me,
a resident  of  the  State  of  Washington,  to send them 8.57% for
Washington  sales tax  on the book, when the sales tax rate in this
state  tops out at 8.1%?   Even  an investigation of potential near
term changes in the sales tax rate uncovered nothing like the 8.57%
value.

Has anyone else  received diskette's from A-T that are incompatible
with the type of computer they have,  or was this an isolated case?
If  Ashton Tate  is listening,  maybe they could also determine how
they arrived at the sales tax rate.
-- 
TJ {With Amazing Grace} The Piper
aka Ted Jardine  CFI-ASME/I
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