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From: amccor@dres.dnd.ca (Alan McCormac)
Subject: Re: WANTED : Miniboard
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In article <CJtvqD.FJ0@demon.co.uk> Marc Nicholas <marc@rednet.demon.co.uk> writes:
>From: Marc Nicholas <marc@rednet.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: WANTED : Miniboard
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 13:49:25 GMT

>In article <gratclif.5.0016D011@magnusug.acs.ohio-state.edu> Gregory W.
>Ratcliff, gratclif@magnusug.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:
>>Thanks for the support...for the next couple weeks, I'll be posting the
>>shipments... till this all resolved.

This has got to be the biggest one-man job ever attempted in c.r
history.  Greg gets some very big orders and runs into a lot of walls.
Our research establishment has several people who wanted to try out
miniboards, so I compiled a bulk order and sent him about $2500 (CAN)
last April for 50 unpopulated and 20 assembled.  I'm sure that wiped
out supply for a while.  He had to ship them at least three times 
before they stopped bouncing off the rubber wall of Canadian Customs,
but we got the works by October.  Be patient, he always delivers.

>I got my Miniboard PCBs this morning (mailed from the US on Friday, in
>London Tuesday!)...so that proves Greg does ship stuff when he has it,
>and that he doesn't normally lose orders...

>Shall we let this die?

Please.

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