-=> /* Quoting Walter Bowen to BRUCE WILSON */ <=-
 WB> The sysop program is how I obtained my very first
 WB> Courier, back in the days when the list price was
 WB> $1295 and the sysop price was about $499 or so.
Me too.  And I just obtained my last (apparently) sysop
deal modem for $199.99 last month.
 WB> The program will be missed.  There are still a lot of
 WB> serious sysops out here.
Yes, and yes.  HOWEVER, just today I was in my local
Computer City and found a USR Courier V.Everything/x2/v90
External modem for... get ready... $249.99!  And this is
their *regular* price!
I think I know why the sysop deal dried up.  And personally
I don't think it was because of the reduction of the number
of BBS's.  If I had to make the choice of buying a USR
Courier today at $249 or waiting 6 weeks for one at $199
after being "verified" and playing all the Credit Card or
Money Order or Check games through snail mail, I think I'd
buy the one on the shelf locally. Probably what a whole lot
of other sysops would do today too.  And USR/3Com knows it.
-Frank
(fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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