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bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong) writes:

>>Egghead (in New England, don't know about the rest of the country) has
>>MSDOS V5.0 in stock right now for $39. Several folks here at DEC have
>>already purchased and installed it.
>>I would think that other retailers will be getting stock soon.


> Egghead in Redondo Beach, CA, has it.  The "regular" price will be
> $80, the current price is $60, but if you fill out an "instant
> discount" info sheet the pirce is $40.

> CompUSA has it for $60, also.

I saw the upgrade kit in WaldenSoftware yesterday, with a good demonstration
of why more math needs to be taught in this country's schools.

The "everyday discount" price on the sticker was $74.95; below that on
the computer-printed sticker was the note that "Walden Preferred Customers"
or whatever can get a 10% discount off that price, making the final cost
$71.20

When I asked about this the clerk at least didn't try to blame it on a 
"computer error"; he just said that the label price was wrong and the 
10% discount was correct, making the proper price $67.46 by my calculator.

As far as the product itself is concerned I've been running a production 
copy for some time with only one unfixable problem.  A rather old 
program from the early IBM PDS program line, File Command II (which, oddly
enough, is called FC3.COM) worked fine on the late beta versions of DOS 5
but dies a messy death under the shrink-wrap version.  (The program is
similar to the VM/CMS programs FLIST and FILELIST.)  Microsoft was
sent the offending program several weeks ago; I'm waiting for a response.

Joe