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From: dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu
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Subject: Re: RE: FRED FISH CD ROM?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 04:59:31 GMT
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I am surprized that noone mentioned the greatest advantage of a CD ROM 
Fish Disk, The CD ROM at about $5.00 pluss the CD ROM player at about
$500.00 would be cheaper than buying the entire set of fish disks at
the already great price of $2.00 per disk for 300+ disks.

Unfortunately, creating this CD ROM would require an upfront investment
of about $5000 on the part of Fred Fish. A possible solution would be
to have Commodore arrange for the production of the disks, and include
them with their roumored CD ROM drive, as well as selling them at cost
to Fred Fish so he could distribute them.

Updateing the disk once a year would probably be enough unless the 
volume brought the price of more frequent updates low enough.

I am in favor of just publishing the entire collection as is, sorting
through all that data would be a horendous task. For future releases,
I would prefer to have the software so it could be executed directly
from the CD ROM.

Douglas Peale