Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!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: <1990Aug9.080546.9135@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 08:05:46 GMT References: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <43785@apple.Apple.COM> Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: Not much! Lines: 41 In <43785@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: >In article <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes: >>In chin@ankh.ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes: >> >>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. >"Dear DTS: Please stop sending me several hundred megabytes of useful >information per quarter. I absolutely positively don't want to buy a CD-ROM >drive, even as a very useful development tool, and getting the information >makes me think every now and then that I might be mistaken, which of course >can't be the case." >OK, so maybe this is too reactionary, but not much. CD-ROM is an effective, >efficient and practical method to send tons of information to the developer >community. It's not "CD-ROM vs. Floppy" - if it wasn't on the CD-ROM, the >cost of distributing it via floppy would make it not free. I personally >believe that the contents of the Developer CD would cost the average developer >around $300 if it wasn't on the CD. >The Developer CD is like sending a hard disk full of great stuff to each >developer every quarter. We have no intention of stopping that or of spending >hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn it into a few hundred floppies. We >want the cost of this stuff to be *lower*, remember? That's why every >Apple Partner gets to buy one CD-ROM drive at a very low price. [stuff deleted] Matt, I take your message along with the intended humor that it contains, however to be serious for a moment, what small percentage of this $300 worth of information is really Apple II related. You seem to forget that Apple II developers do not need/cannot use the mac info for the most part.. When broken down, the Apple II section would not require many disks to distribute.. The developer deal on the CD-ROM drive was a very good one, UNTIL the retail price of the drive was dropped, then it became a deal, but not a great one.. -- bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN