STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) (07/01/89)
The following communication from Tom Weishaar of A2-Central (via GEnie) describes Claris' upgrade offers and may be of interest. Item forwarded by UNCLE-DOS to D.ASTON1 Item 0901663 89/06/26 12:21 From: UNCLE-DOS Tom Weishaar, Apple II Manager To: AH.STEIN Alan H. Stein cc: OA$ Open-Apple Staff Sub: info-apple Thanks for offering to forward this information to Info-Apple. I understand there have been some questions regarding the "Claris coupon" included in the envelope with this month's A2-Central newsetter. The coupon allows A2-Central subscribers to upgrade to AppleWorks 3.0 for $79 (you send in your original disk) or $99 (no original disk required). An original coupon is required. You send it to Claris. If you are already registered with Claris, you will get a separate offer in the mail directly from Claris which is exactly the same as the $79 offer, except since they already have your name registered, you won't have to send in your original disk (which also means you'll be able to do the upgrade by phone.) Claris hasn't mailed out its offer yet because it isn't ready to release AppleWorks 3.0. Initial plans called it for to go out in early July and our coupon was timed to match that. In mid-June Claris decided there were still too many bugs in 3.0 and put off release till August. Claris pretty much begged us not to send out the coupon, but it was already printed as part of our monthly catalog and we couldn't stop it. So, no matter when you send in the coupon, you won't get your copy of AppleWorks 3.0 until some time in August. The coupon expires on September 30. My understanding is that similar Claris coupons will also be distributed by all the remaining AppleWorks-related newsletters (AppleWorks Journal has ceased publication). If you aren't an A2-Central subscriber, you can still get our July issue and catalog by becoming one. Subscription orders received at our office through July 7 will start with the July issue. Our subscription prices are currently $28/year (newsletter only) and $84/year ($28 newsletter plus twelve $4.66 3.5 disks containing the full text of the newsletter for online searching plus the latest/greatest bonus files we can find). We're at: A2-Central P.O. Box 11250 Overland Park, KS 66207 913-469-6502 on GEnie we're: A2-CENTRAL Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN 32 Hillside Avenue | Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500 (203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein