Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!trantow From: trantow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: FRED FISH CD ROM? Message-ID: <5582@uwm.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 14:07:35 GMT References: <6058@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: trantow@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jerry J Trantow) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 57 In article <6058@hub.ucsb.edu> dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes: >-Message-Text-Follows- > >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 wi OK, ater a fair amount of discussion this thread got back to my original intent. Are there plans for thee Fred Fish disks to be amoung the often quoted 100 CD titles that will be released with the CDTV. I realize this disk might be of little value to CDTV owners (unless they had the optional devices), but it would show that CBM is serious about CD ROM and quite frankly I can not think of a better resource to have on CD ROM. From all the discussion, it seems that quite a few on the net agree that the Fish disks would be a valuable asset. I would also guess that there are or were no plans for such a disk before the discussion started. >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 As has been mentioned, culling out the updates and bad examples is not necessary in an initial release. There is room for all the disks. Having a disk with the "best" is an idea when the CD ROM nears capacity. As far as the indexing goes, it is a great idea, but would not be worth delaying such a project. Why not take the approach of the Census Bureau? Make the data available and let the private sector do what they want with it. If CBM or Fred or ??? would publish a Fish CD ROM, I don't think it would take very long before we saw PD/shareware/$$ programs that would do the indexing and searching. How long would it take to put together a Cando or AmigaVision stack that you would customize with your own search criteria. I realize indexing would save time, but just having all the floppies condensed onto one CD ROM would be a hell of an improve ment over a file cabinet of floppies, waitnaiting for a users meeting, or searching for a FTP site. Let's keep kicking this idea around for a while longer and hopefully someone will see a way to give the Amiga Community a big boost. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jerry J. Trantow | A basic premise is an absolute that permits no 1560 A. East Irving Place | co-operation with its antithesis and Milwaukee, Wi 53202-1460 | tolerates no tolerance. (414) 289-0503 | Ayn Rand _____________________________________________________________________________