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Re: SPECTRUM

ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:


>In a previous article, behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) says:

>>You don't "surrender" PT. This is a competetive upgrade, you keep your copy of
>>PT. As far as I know, there's no demo of Spectrum available ... I'll give
>I would like to try it for the same reason but somehow the upgrade price seems
>too good to be true.  And it doesn't pass the logic test.  Why would they be
>willing to chop $80 (better than 60%) off their price solely because a buyer
>proves he owns a similar program?  It has been my experience that when vendors

Well, search me.

>offer "upgrades" to users of other programs they expect you to send in your
>original disk which then transfers ownership rights to them.  Maybe I'm
>living in the marketing dark ages but I remain skeptical.

Remain sceptical if it makes you feel any more secure. :) Just when they
announced this "upgrade" path (quite a time ago), I ordered it and asked
if I had to send in my original disks. The answer was a very definite "no".

Go figure

Soenke
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