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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: CD-ROM; HyperCard; request for info
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Date: 27 Jul 88 18:34:20 GMT
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In article <14447@apple.Apple.COM> dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) writes:
>Pressing an HFS CD-ROM is easy and costs the same
>as pressing any other CD-ROM: about $1500 for mastering and
>approximately $2-3 per disk.  Some companies are even throwing in 100
>disks as part of a $1500 promo.

Where can I find out what format the CD manufacturers want to see the data in?
I presume it's 9-track tape of some sort, but what sort?

>HyperCard seems to perform the best with stacks in the under 10000 card
>area, although we hope to continue to improve its performance and
>reliability with stacks of millions of cards potentially.  I understand
>that we just created a stack of 600,000 cards for testing!!  In any
>case, choosing a stack size is very dependant upon what kind of
>information, what kind of linking is needed between stacks, etc.

Anytime you want, I can generate a stack with over 3 million cards with lots
of card buttons linking them to each other and perhaps even some card graphics.
All I need is a big enough disk to hold it ... and enough CPU power to generate
it in less than a couple of days ... and about a week's notice.  How many cards
would a HyperCard stack hold if an entire CD was used for one stack?

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com
	UUCP: sun!hanami!landman