Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!dg-rtp!dg!archive!bkahn From: bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: cd-rom Message-ID: <743@dg.dg.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 14:19:46 GMT References: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Sender: root@dg.dg.com Reply-To: bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: Data General Corporation, Westboro, MA Lines: 41 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: |> |> >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? |> If you take the 'Discy Business: The Real One' to almost any Apple dealer or some User groups then you should be able to at least get the files onto Mac 3.5 and from there to the Apple... |> 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.. |> [...] Havent you ever read the stuff that comes in the mailings??? Ever heard of the ProDOS partition that is pressed into the CD-ROM for developers who use ProDOS? Guess no one in your user group has either... I dont know about the rest of the devlopers who are on the net but I can say that I definitely enjoy having the CD-ROM; it beats having a case of floppys arrive every now and then... Guess its just too bad that Apple Associates (Mac that is) cant enjoy the same hardware purchase benefits as the Apple Partners but then again ALL Apple II Developers now can (and for half the price...) Bruce (bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com)