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From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: info sought on CD ROMs
Message-ID: <41492@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 14:16:45 GMT
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phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk writes:

>I just paid my money to purchase an Apple CD ROM drive and am now
>wondering what to get to put in it (I know I need CDs but I don't know
>which ones to get :-) ), anyway - I heard about the BMUG CD which is
>supposed to contain lots and lots of public domain and shareware stuff,
>but being in the UK etc. I'm not sure how to contact them and how to
>order the CD.  Anyone got any info on what's actually on this CD (if
>I'm not imagining it) and how I go about ordering it from the UK.
>Anyone got any info on any other CDs that you can recommend?  Until I
>get some CD ROMs its just an expensive CD player...

If you have Applelink, there is a listing of third party CD-ROM products
on the developer services board.  I'll see about getting it available
somewhere for anonymous ftp.  Like all such lists, it's incomplete and
out of date.

The BMUG PD-ROM is a large collection of public-domain and shareware.
There are several other such CD-ROMs; Boston Computer Society, QLTech,
and Educorp all make them.
  KimTec UK
  8, Highland Road
  Wimborne Dorset, BH21 2QN
  Tel: 44-202/888-873
  Fax: 44-202/888-863

QLTech sells several variations on the "virusware" CD-ROM, including
"The Right Stuffed"; all the junk you ever wanted to load onto a BBS,
already in StuffIt format.  A distributor in the UK is 
  Future Office Systems
  Firs House
  High Street
  Whitchurch
  Aylesbury Bucks HP22 4LL
  Tel: 44-296/64110
  Fax: 44-296/641-869

Both of the distributors listed above are taken from a little pamphlet I
picked up at MacWorld called "CD-ROM Shopper's Guide."  It's published
by 
  DDRI, Inc.
  510 N. Washington Street
  Suite 401
  Falls Church, VA 22046-3537 USA
  Tel: 703.237.0682
  Toll-Free in US: 800.688.DDRI

Apple's d e v e l o p magazine is a quarterly which comes with a CD-ROM.
Starting with the second issue, each CD-ROM contains "developer
essentials" such as the Spinside Mac, Tech Notes, and Q&A stacks; the
latest version of all of our foreign language software; every version of
our US software; DTS sample code; and a variety of other software and
documentation.  (This is a subset of what's on the Developer CD series
discs such as "A Disk Called Wanda.")  $30/year US, $50/year otherwise.  
  d e v e l o p
  Apple Computer, Inc.
  P.O. Box 531
  Mt. Morris, IL 61054 USA
  Fax Orders: 619.485.5547

A reasonable source for CD-ROM titles in the US is
  Bureau of Electronic Publishing
  141 New Road
  Parsippany NJ 07054 USA
  Tel: 201.808.2700
  Fax: 201.808.2676

Disclaimer:  I haven't tried any of these addresses or phone numbers.
I'm reporting what I read, not actual experience.  All my CDs walk into
my office and plop themselves down on my chair.  Your mileage may vary.

--Brian Bechtel		blob@apple.com		"My opinion, not Apple's"