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From: joseph@valnet (Joseph Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: FRED FISH CD ROM?
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Date: 3 Aug 90 05:48:46 GMT
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NJ_GOKEM%FANDM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu writes:

> 
> 
> >From:  edu%"trantow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu""Jerry J Trantow"  2-AUG-1990 14:10:43.
> You Write:
> [pondering stuff deleted]
> >
> >Will there be a FredFish optical disk?  (Needs a catchy name)
> >
> >Think about it, no more looking through the back of a magazine for titles,
> >a reduction in c.s.a traffic for FTP sites of fish disks,
> >code examples at your typing finger tips,
> >games galore!
> >
> >And only with Amiga.
> >
> >Jerry J. Trantow
> 
> Yes! That would be great,
> But, and this is an important but,
> don't go the way apple-macintosh CD's went.
> 
> Whole CD's are packed with the greatest bu@@s@@t ever.
> Let's hope that that will not happen. Maybe we need to
> make a Billboard top 100 software programs CD, where only the best
> PD and SHAREWARE software will be found.
> For example: on the MAC-CDROM from EDUCORP are over 25 communications-program
> 2 of them could do XMODEM, none could do ZMODEM.
> Why not just 5 com-programs, all of which are good!
> 
> Yes, I am for a FISHCD, but only if it is the best!
> 
> Nils Gokemeijer (NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM)

If Fish makes a CD, the first one should include all the Fish disks to 
date. That way, we know it has good programs on it. He should keep making 
his floppies, and when he gets 300 new ones, he should  pack the new ones 
onto another CD-ROM. He should also unarchive those #!#!$#! .zoo and .arc 
archives. (Aren't they a pain?!?)

-Joseph Hillenburg
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