Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: cd-rom Message-ID: <43805@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 9 Aug 90 17:52:31 GMT References: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <43785@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Aug9.080546.9135@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 31 In article <1990Aug9.080546.9135@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes: >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 I was only talking about the Apple II content, although there is Apple II content on the Macintosh side (not only MPW IIgs stuff, but the entire Apple II partition is included as a folder for server use since AppleShare servers can't use local ProDOS volumes). $300 is too low -- the separate Apple II stuff on the disk if distributed individually would cost you way, way more than $300 to buy it all, but I guess any individual developer would have to pay about $300 for the stuff he's interested in. I'm at home and can't verify this instantly, but I believe the ProDOS partition of the Developer CD is somewhere around 24 MB. -- ============================================================================ Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions represented here are Developer Technical Support, Apple II | not necessarily those of Apple Group. Personal mail only, please. | Computer, Inc. Remember that." ============================================================================