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- Dear Jim and others waiting patiently for Executor 1.2.1,
-
- Approximately 500 copies of Executor 1.2.1 will be going to the mail
- on Monday. That shipment includes all the free updates and all the
- backorders to dealers around the world. I apologize for the delay
- which I explain below.
-
- Our intention was to have Executor shipping on the 14th of September.
- That would have given us a week to get copies to our distributers
- listed in our ad in the current, Winter 1992, NeXTWORLD.
-
- As you know, Executor 1.2.1 is the first version of Executor to come
- with a nice manual/binder/slipcase. We've had the binders and the
- slipcases for some time. We ran into three separate problems
- producing the manuals.
-
- The first problem is that even though we discussed exactly what we
- were doing with our local (Macintosh based) printer, there was some
- last minute confusion that delayed the Lino output by two business
- days. Hence the release date moves to the 16th of September.
-
- The second problem is that the printer took a week longer to get our
- manuals done than we expected. The release date now moves to the
- 23rd of September.
-
- The 23rd came and I personally went over to pick up our manuals only
- to find that they had been run on the wrong type of paper (bond
- instead of glossy) and that insufficient attention to detail had been
- paid when operating some of the collating machines and there were
- holes on some of the pages of each of our manuals. We refused the
- manuals on the paper mix-up alone, but even barring that the quality
- was not acceptable either. At this point we consider shipping
- Executor 1.2.1 disks now and send the manuals later.
-
- However, after reviewing the packaging concerns (using a 2.5" x 6" x
- 9" box to send a floppy is "inefficient" to say the least) and
- discussing the situation with the printer, we've come down with a
- firm date of this coming Monday for them to deliver the guts of our
- manual (they actually said it would be today, Friday or Monday, but
- I'm going to assume the worst).
-
- That was the bad news. The good news is that we're getting a *lot*
- of interest from our ad in NeXTWORLD. This will directly translate
- into more dollars for more engineers. It will also indirectly turn
- into more software for us to test since we credibly can ask ISV's to
- send a free copy of their software for us so that we can test it and
- advertise it as working with Executor 1.2.1 if it does or fix some
- incompatibilities and have it working for Executor 1.3.
-
- Thank you for all the support you've given us so far. We're really
- starting to take off and we greatly appreciate the people who
- purchased from us when word-of-mouth was our sole advertising.
-
- --Cliff
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