Re: A letter to Dave Baggett

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From: Dan Cable
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:17

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Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:

>>Yes it's true. However, that $15.00 version of OS/2 is a non-registered
>>beta version which is only liscensed until January 3, 1993. You wouldn't
>>want to have a pirated OS would you?

>Well, er..  my boss called IBM at the 800 number you provided on
>Molin's Den (thanks, Dan..!) last Friday, January 8, 1993, and
>IBM sold him a CD-ROM with OS/2 on it..  with nothing said about
>it being a beta copy..
> 
>They said two week delivery, but unofficially to expect it much
>sooner than that... so I guess we'll see when it gets here..
> 
>Heck.. at that price, I'm thinking of ordering one too..!
> 
>BobR

Not having it in my possession yet either, I only repeated what has been
posted in the OS2 newsgroups. Obviously, no one there is terribly
concerned about it as there were a few folks who just had to set there
clocks ahead before January 4th just to see what would happen. Nothing did.

--
dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu

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