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- From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: A letter to Dave Baggett
- Message-ID: <73354@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 22:59:02 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1i7dalINNelp@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- <H.ea.T8tPKI2qGqM@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <73275@cup.portal.com>
- <1993Jan10.011704.11237@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Dan Cable writes:
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- >>OS/2 is available *NOW* from IBM, on CD-ROM, for $15.00
-
- >Yes it's true. However, that $15.00 version of OS/2 is a non-registered
- >beta version which is only liscensed until January 3, 1993. You wouldn't
- >want to have a pirated OS would you?
-
- Well, er.. my boss called IBM at the 800 number you provided on
- Molin's Den (thanks, Dan..!) last Friday, January 8, 1993, and
- IBM sold him a CD-ROM with OS/2 on it.. with nothing said about
- it being a beta copy..
-
- They said two week delivery, but unofficially to expect it much
- sooner than that... so I guess we'll see when it gets here..
-
- Heck.. at that price, I'm thinking of ordering one too..!
-
- BobR
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