Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Fish Compendium Name (Re: CD-ROM for the Amiga) Keywords: Sun CD-ROM Message-ID: <1990Aug18.054937.11246@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 18 Aug 90 05:49:37 GMT References: <1870@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 23 lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > [Need an installed base of Amiga CD-ROM drives to sell CD-ROM disks, but also need an existing base of CD-ROMware to sell Amiga CD-ROM drives.] >This is why it is so important to have a CD-ROM >available that will sell fairly well; one that will cause folks to go out and >buy a drive. Personally, I think that a _fully_ indexed Fred Fish collection, >whether it be on 1 disk or 3, along with a good search engine, would be the >catalyst that starts the ball rolling (or the CD-ROM spinning). Another solution of course is to make the Amiga software and hardware compatible with the existing CD-ROM data disks. But enough of seriousness; I just figured out my candidate for the name of the (first) Fred Fish Software Grand Compendium CD-ROM disk: A School of Fishware Well, I liked it! Kent, the man from xanth.