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From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: 8/16-Central
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Date: 10 Dec 90 06:35:58 GMT
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In article <1990Dec9.142340.19164@hellgate.utah.edu> nrunyon%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (The Third Bard) writes:
>	Unfortunatly, for those of us who subscribe to the paper issue because
>of price (or other reasons) will now have to pay the $69 yearly fee for the
>disk version if we want to continue subscribing.  Grant, I think 8/16 is
>very good, but I don't know if I can fork out $70 a year.   Well, I still
>have three months to get the money, but it does seem to be just too much.

Add to that the fact that they'll only put it out on 3.5" disks.  I'm
sure they'll lose some subscribers because of it.  The very least they
could do would be to send issues on multiple 5.25" disks, but the
folks at A2-Central don't seem to know what 5.25" disks are.  For
memory hogs such as the Mac and IIGS, 3.5" disks may be appropriate,
but you really don't need them with an 8-bit system.  Assuming that I
don't decide to just save up for a 386SX system, the upgrade
priorities I've set for my system (enhanced IIe, DataLink 2400,
RamWorks III w/1 meg installed) look something like this:

1) Zip Chip
2) SCSI HD
3) 3.5" drive

There just isn't much to justify the expense of a 3.5" drive on an
8-bit Apple II system.  (Possibly for HD backup, but you can pack
stuff away with ShrinkIt before saving to lots of 5.25" disks--and
ShrinkIt should run considerably faster with a Zip Chip installed.)

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