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Re: Vaporware prize

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From: Jay Denebeim
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1986 21:19
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In article <509@imsvax.UUCP>, ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes:
> Has anyone
> ever advertised and taken money for a software product four months before
> it is available before??

	Not this week anyway.  It's not uncommon at all in the micro-computer
world to see adds six months to a year before the first unit goes out the door.


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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ethos!jay
From: jay@ethos.UUCP (Jay Denebeim)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Vaporware prize
Message-ID: <368@ethos.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 16:19:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ethos.368
Posted: Sun Feb  9 16:19:27 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 05:27:20 EST
References: <509@imsvax.UUCP>
Organization: ETHOS, Durham, North Carolina
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