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Re: ---Double your Mac's hard disk space for $29!---

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From: Jon Wagner
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 02:04
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In article <willhoek-2003951005440001@blv-pm0-ip22.halcyon.com>,
willhoek@halcyon.com (Will Parker) wrote:

> In article <mactimeD5q8Ir.GuH@netcom.com>, mactime@netcom.com (Tom
> Spearman) wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I am selling brand new copies of TimesTwo 2.0 software, a disk expanding
> > utility for the Macintosh.  You will literally double the available space
> > on your hard disk without compressing files.  
> >...
> 
> While disk compression software is always a matter of taste to a certain
> extent, and I'm sure the poster is acting in good faith, several of my
> friends up here in the Big Village experienced disasterous disk crashes
> DURING the install of TimesTwo. In 2 out of 6 cases, the users had to
> reformat their hard drives in order to recover, while all experienced
> serious data loss. Caveat Installer.
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>   Third rule of Tech Support - If you can't navigate a 
>   five-item, single level phone tree without becoming
>   frustrated, you didn't need that computer anyway.
>                      -Willhoek@halcyon.com-
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Hasn't the company that makes TimesTwo been out of business for about a year?

-- 
Jon
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Subject: Re: ---Double your Mac's hard disk space for $29!---
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 20:04:33 -0600
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