In message <34F2ADB9.4172@midcoast.com.au>, "Paul B. Webster VK2BZC"
<paulb@midcoast.com.au> writes
>
>  Nice idea, *IF* you live in the US.  I tried ordering the CD-ROM,
>seemed to be a perfectly simple request.  What happened?  Nothing for
>several weeks, then a letter in the post on Microchip letterhead but in
>an envelope postmarked in this country, saying that the request had been
>passed on to the local dealers and they would contact me in due course.
>
>  THAT was several weeks ago.  Gee whiz, ALL they had to do was to mail
>me the CD from the US.  Even by the cheapest surface mail, not even
>asking for air mail, it would have arrived in a few weeks.  What have I
>got now?  *Nothing*, apart from a totally, 100% useless letter!

Exactly the same happens (or not) in the UK. What a waste of everybody's
time!

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Alan Hall, Ipswich, UK
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