Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!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: <1990Aug10.052034.22067@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 05:20:34 GMT References: <1990Aug9.005540.5558@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <43785@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Aug9.080546.9135@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <43805@apple.Apple.COM> Distribution: comp.sys.apple2 Organization: Not much! Lines: 26 In <43805@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: [stuff deleted] >$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. Ok, for sake of discussion let's assume that the partition is 24 MB. If my math is on the ball that equates to less than 29 3.5 disks, and with bulk disks running .50 or less each we are looking at a media cost of $15 or less per developer to put the data out in a format more widely acceptable than on cd-rom.. Subtract from the $15 cost, the cost of the cd-rom, its case, pressing etc. and what is left?? Really not too much.. and lots more people could access the information. I am not knocking the idea of cd-rom in general, I am however trying to say that it is not an accepted medium in the Apple II world by users or developers, and not all Apple II people have a Mac sitting on the next table with a cd-rom attached either. -- bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu | bsherman@pro-exchange | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN