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Article #19831

Re: Where can I find MPW

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From: Robert Joseph Hammen
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1987 18:40
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In article <2907@husc6.UUCP> singer@endor.UUCP (Richard Siegel) writes:
>In article <12338510906029@KL.SRI.COM> DLE@KL.SRI.COM (David L. Edwards) writes:
>
>	Pascal *has* been released; I just suspect that supply is
>outpacing demand at the moment. Or maybe APDA ran out of single-sided
>floppies? :-)

	I just received an "in-between catalogs" update from APDA. In the
newsletter, they apologize for not realizing that commercial disk-duplicators
can wear out disk drives. So, if you are one of the many who got MPW with
unreadable disks, call them up and they will send you replacements. As a bonus,
you get to keep the old disks (wow). I think their reliability would improve
more if they did stop using single-sided disks as double-sided.
	Other things of interest (that I can remember) from the catalog - they
tell what HyperCard materials they will stock, including the Script Reference
and the Goodman book. Inside Mac V is now in the final APDA draft. Someone is
advertising a tape backup unit for less than the Apple one (and it is 
supposedly compatible, as well). Other than that, I don't think there was 
anything really earth-shattering in this letter.

>>I believe APDA is trying to improve things but a second source
>>would be nice.
>
>	Amen to that! Can you say "Monopoly"?
>
	Seconded! Can anyone at Apple who is reading this please pass this
request to those making the decisions? Jordan?


Robert Hammen	Computer Applications, Inc.
hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu	Delphi: HAMMEN		GEnie: R.Hammen
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Subject: Re: Where can I find MPW
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