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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!ctnews!88opensi!sartin
  2. From: sartin@88opensi.88open.ORG (Rob Sartin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  4. Subject: Re: monitor for HP730 HP-UX8.07
  5. Keywords: Costs
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep7.183812.1696@88opensi.88open.ORG>
  7. Date: 7 Sep 92 18:38:12 GMT
  8. References: <1722@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> <16600018@hprpcd.rose.hp.com> <37752@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
  9. Reply-To: sartin@88opensi.UUCP (Rob Sartin)
  10. Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd., San Jose
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  12.  
  13. In article <37752@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
  14. [In reference to Glance being a supported product for which you pa
  15. and monitor being unsupported]
  16. >Yeah, I bought a car from GM with the same problem.  "Gee, we're
  17. >sorry you machine you bought doesn't work, but it's not covered
  18. >under the warranty, or the extended service plan you bought" (it
  19. >never is!) What a load of HOOEY!  Do any Americans still tar and
  20. >feather when they are ANNOYED!!! (that's not the word, but it'll
  21. >do!!!)
  22.  
  23. >American TRASH!!!
  24.  
  25. Yeah, I bought a car from Toyota and it didn't come with a tachometer,
  26. can you believe it?  What trash!
  27.  
  28. But seriously, what is the advantage of having tools that not everyone
  29. wants "bundled"?  Remember that what that means is that people who don't
  30. want it also pay for it, not that people who do want it don't pay
  31. for it.
  32.  
  33. Rob
  34.