sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) (12/13/89)
Ok, this is just about takes the cake as the BIGGEST blunder that Apple has ever made. Background: Christmas time promotions from Apple Canada included a smart program where information about a sweepstakes for a Mac Portable would be sent out to all Apple registered owners. At that time, a small "reader survey" was to be taken. The incentive to bring in these entry forms, and an incentive to visit "your apple dealer" was a free mousepad. We recieved the mousepads earlier in November and waited for the promotional material to be sent out. People started comming in the middle of the first week of December, we cheerfully handed out mousepads in reciept of these entry forms. Of course, Apple Canada failed to realize that most Cdn Apple owners don't have mice (ala //+'s, //c's, and //e's).. but let not that ruin the story. Within a week people were reporting many "fried keyboards" and other such strange phenonmenon. The weird break down of many Apple's just after the mousepads became availible clicked in a few peoples heads, the mousepads were frying peoples computers! Apple Canada shipped DEFECTIVE MOUSEPADS! Apple Canada has issued a recall on all the mousepads out there, asking dealers to call these customers who we have given mousepads to and ask them to bring them back and give them a nice rain check saying that they are currently out of stock of the mousepads and will have some availible in late January 1990. Apple Canada is now going to have to spend thousands shipping the defective mousepads out of dealers be destroyed, printing rain-check slips, and sending mousepads through the mail to individual users throughout Canada. I LOVE it, defective mousepads worth a few cents each.. I guess you can always leave it to Apple. :) (All in good humor, of course..) UUCP: crash!pro-generic!sysop ARPA: crash!pro-generic!sysop@nosc.mil INET: sysop@pro-generic.cts.com
paulh@nuchat.UUCP (Paul Hutmacher) (12/18/89)
How in the world can a mousepad be defective and fry keyboards? Static electricity? How do you test for a defective mousepad? -- Paul Hutmacher uunet!nuchat!paulh