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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
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 21:58:16 1985
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> 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: `-_-'
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