HHCs

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Fri Jul 25 01:15:33 1997

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Gil Parrish wrote:

> Message text written by Sam:
> >I should have mentioned that in a couple months when the remaining units
> are liberated, they will be up for grabs.<
>
> A suggestion. Why don't you start with the existing list of people who
> were willing to pay for the units, and allocate one to each. If there
> aren't enough to go around, then delete names in some random manner. If
> there are units left over, then take the list of folks who requested more
> than one and allocate them to those folks in some sort of random manner,
> and so on.

This is what I planned to do. I have retained the list. There were a
total of 53 interested persons, so hopefully there will be enough for
everyone. If there are extras then maybe we'll just hold a lottery.

> Anybody will take a "freebie", but the folks who committed to make this
> deal work ought to have the first shot at them. I'm just sorry the deal
> didn't work out as anticipated. And by the way-- if these aren't
> new-in-the-box units, I assume they won't be coming with an instruction
> manual?

A lot of people asked about that. The answer I got was that Mike would
try to get at least a couple manuals, as he didn't know how many there
were, and the distributors would make photocopies and pass along the cost
to the buyer.

Sam
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