Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: utzoo!utstat!philip From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM,GS,Mac Message-ID: <1990Aug11.005138.6660@utstat.uucp> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 90 00:51:38 GMT References: <9008101615.AA22546@apple.com> Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto In article <9008101615.AA22546@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes: [detailed account of SCSI, PCT+SCSI,CD-ROM formats...] Sorry to keep at this. I'm not making myself clear. So I'll try to rephrase this in PC terms. There is a Sierra PC program, meant to run on IBM type computers only. It is a program, not a text file,etc... . The program's name is Mixed up Mother Goose. Now the problem is, this progam is 250megs in size-too much for distribution on floppies, and the floppy swapping would do a person in! So it is placed on a CD-ROM disk. It is clear that the program can't run on a GS or a Mac because it is meant for a different cpu. Now I have an Apple CD-ROM PLAYER. I don't have a PC. I have a GS and a Mac. I want to run this program, so I am prepared to buy an IBM type computer for the SOLE purpose of running Mixed up Mother Goose, which happens to be a 250meg program. The question is: Do I have to buy another CD-ROM player, or can I use the Apple CD-ROM player with this IBM computer bought for the purpose of running this progam? Hope that clarifies the problem! Philip McDunnough University of Toronto philip@utstat.toronto.edu [my opinions]