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Re: Cracked TP, etc horror stories: my version
On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Paul Khoury wrote:
>
> And to make matters more interesting, the dealer went out of
> business 2 weeks later. If anyone on the list live in the
> Pasadena/Los Angeles area, you may have heard of them:
> Connecting Point Computers.
Just a trivial piece of nonsense, but I bought my first Thinkpad,
a 750 mono, from them because they were the only folks who had
them in stock and weren't charging $200-$500 *more* than MSRP.
Why should that be interesting? Because Sean Chou created the
original Thinkpad mailing list in response to a joke/comment I
made about TP750 owners forming a support group. After a couple
months of passing around lists of email addresses, Keith Moore
offered to host a real mailing list at the cs.utk.edu site
(thanks Keith!).
Sorry to hear they're gone.
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John H. Kim
kim@mak.com