Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Mystic Pascal RIPOFF Message-ID: <401@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:58:16 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.401 Posted: Sun Nov 3 21:58:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:38:29 EST References: <2749@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 24 > What do you call it when a company takes your money and doesn't deliver the > product? I call it a scam. JRT took orders, cashed checks, and charged > credit cards and then only delivered to a very small number of buyers. A > large number of people were left with a chased check and no product when > JRT went bankrupt. > > > Now, as to my choice of words... I may very well be open to a libel suit. > But then so will all the hundreds of people on CompuServe who declared JRT > a ripoff. Jim Tyson has a bad name in the microcomputer industry. If he wants > to redeem himself he should find a better way then trying to sell vaporware. Interesting. I never heard of any of this... and I was following JRT with some interest back when I was thinking of getting a CP/M machine. AT the time the choice of a programming language was basically JRT Pascal or BDS 'C', both of which were non-standard and (reputedly) buggy. I eventually went with BDS for the machine at work & never bothered to get a CP/M machine of mine own. Of course I didn't have a Compuserve account but neither Infoworld, nor Byte, nor Dr. Dobbs breathed a word of this. -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter