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echo: os2
to: Will Honea
from: Dan Egli
date: 1999-09-16 06:51:00
subject: Beware of shoddy dea

 -=> Quoting Will Honea to Rich Wonneberger <=-

 WH> Rich Wonneberger wrote to Jeffrey J. Counsil on 08-29-1999
 
 RW> *** Quoting Jeffrey J. Counsil to Ian Singer dated 08-28-99 ***
 RW> > IS> Not true at all.  Some software is provided in such a way that the
 RW> > IS> licence fee is paid, and its installed on the hard drive by the 
 RW> > dealer
 RW> > IS> but that there are no original CDs or floppies.
 RW> > 
 RW> > Does Packard Smell ring a bell? ;-)
 RW> 
 RW> Even they provided a restore CD which install'd the orig apps..  
 RW> 
 RW> Rich

 WH> Not the ones I saw from Walmart - all they provided was a program to
 WH> copy the install data from the hard drive to floppies:  Too cheap to
 WH> even supply a CD!


Having worked for PB, I can say that those were OLD Computers. ANY
new computer from PB will have a Master Restore CD w/ all the software on it.
It may not WORK, but It's there :>


... I call things as I see them; If I didn't see them, I make them up!

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