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From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
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Subject: Re: Amiga World / Amazing Computing Tech magazines
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Date: 3 Apr 91 00:43:28 GMT
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[Re: Whether AC Tech should sell a diskless version of their magazine.]

I remember that the only reason I didn't buy the first AC Tech was that I didn't
want the disk.  The articles would have been interesting and enjoyable, but I 
figure that I would have been wasting money on the disk because I was likely to
only read about the projects they published.  I have enough of my own to start
adding some of theirs.

I agree that a diskless version of the mag should be available.  They could even
do it something like Dr. Dobbs Journal does. (Hey, it may be a PC-oriented mag,
but the April issue has articles on neural nets, genetic algs, fractals, BSD
Unix, and multitasking.  It's pretty decent.)  

The way DDJ does it is to publish the source (or a good part of it when the 
source is long) in the mag, then make it available for something like $14.95 
on disk.  You can also download the source from CompuServe or a free service 
via direct dial (long distance).

-- 
       Greg Harp       |"How I wish, how I wish you were here.  We're just two
                       |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year,
greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground.  What have we found?
  s609@cs.utexas.edu   |The same old fears.  Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd