Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!umigw!mthvax!bsherman From: bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: cd-rom Message-ID: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 00:55:40 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: Not much! Lines: 25 In chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes: >Are there any apple developers out there who got the recent 'discy business' >cd-rom disk and have been able to convert all the II and IIgs stuff on there >to a 3.5. I have the cd-rom but no cd-rom drive. Can anyone help, i.e. i send >you some disks and you copy them for me? I think if enough developers send a complaint to DTS that these cd-roms are useless to the GS developer community they will get the hint and make the stuff available to us on a media that we can use. After all, the intended purpose of the programs they release is to get them used, and if all we can use the cd-rom for is a small frisbee, then the software is not getting out for use.. They even sent a cd rom to Apple ][ users groups this month, but they require a mac to access them. I have spoken with 5 or 6 users group presidents about the cd-roms, and they all without exception said they were completely useless to their groups, and they all have Apple II machines, and they couple of members that did also have a mac certainly did not have the cd-rom drive.. In fact my wife has found a wonderful use for the cd-rom disks.. They work very well to scrape up dried bird droppings... (sure beats throwing them away, right???) -- bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN