Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!rutgers!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!gwni From: gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DAK CDROM offer: advice and query Message-ID: <10746@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 90 03:48:24 GMT References: <17810@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Lines: 24 In <17810@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes: >In lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes: >[on DAK computer/software bundle] >>. Give it a shot, you have 30 days to return it if you are not >>COMPLETELY satisfied. I too have thought about the CD ROM. The >>software alone is worth the $699. >Not even close. I can't consider Wordstar Expert Pro Auteur (or >whatever the current version is called) to be worth anything like its >$600 list price. Aside from it's notorious shortcomings, DAK sell it >separately, with a couple other programs thrown in, for $50. The >remaining programs *might* be worth $700 -- if you actually need them! >Something you can't use is no bargain, whatever the price. Actually, the software referred to in the first post is for the CD-ROM drive, such as the Encyclopedia, the Atlas, etc. This was *not* a reference to the standard DAK software bundle of Wordstar, Grammatik "n", Quattro, etc. That might change the perceived value of the software involved with the CD-ROM offer.