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Re: where to rent software?

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From: William Huang
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 15:10
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In article <37569@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>
>I used to go to a place called The Byte Club in Kearny Mesa to rent
>software.  It was a great place to "try before you buy", but now it
>seems that it has closed down.
>
>Does anyone know of any other place near here where I can rent
>software?
>
>
>-- 
>Dennis Lou             || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
>dlou@ucsd.edu          || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
>[backbone]!ucsd!dlou   |+====================================================
>dlou@ucsd.BITNET       |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.


... Speaking of the Byte Club .......

Does anybody know the latest as to what has happened to them and whats
going on now?

It seems that when they closed down, they sold all the software they
had under consignment ...... really pissed off a lot of people.

At any rate, it seemed like a very shady operation and I doubt there is
another one like it (thats not about to be closed down by the software
police)....  I mean...  really... it makes perfect sense that honest
persons would pay $10 (after the $15 annual membership fee) to rent a
software to "try it out" before purchasing it for $40.


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