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From: mha@THEORY.TC.CORNELL.EDU (Mark H. Anbinder)
Subject: Re: May 13th Today
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 14:52:23 GMT

In article <52918@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>
>Apple (cross fingers and pray FedEx does right) should have all the
>international versions done mid-July, and should have PUK's in stores
>all over the continental US this week.

I'm going to chime in here, because I think, despite Bill's impressive
efforts, people are getting the wrong impression of how well Apple has
done this.

Several weeks ago, Apple dealers were given forms to fill out to get
copies of System 7 for the intro date.  They were told that orders placed
for the upgrade kits through the regular channels would NOT be delivered
by the intro date, but that orders placed on these forms WOULD.

As it happens, Apple didn't have quite enough kits to cover all of the
pre-ship orders, so they allocated a few copies to each dealer who'd 
gotten the special forms in by the deadline.  We had two copies last
Saturday.  I have a strong suspicion that the dealers who haven't gotten
their upgrade kits yet didn't get their orders in on time, or in the right
manner (the special forms, not the usual channel).

I could be wrong, but *I* haven't seen any reason to fault Apple for the
way they have handled this upgrade.  Sure, I would have preferred to have
enough of the PUK for all of the dozens of people who've come in to buy
it (I want a copy for myself, too! :-), but Apple is doing well considering
the demand.  Keep in mind that this thing was just finalized a VERY few
days ago, and they have had several disk duplicators working full time on
it since.

Just my two cents. :-)



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