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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AmigaLibDisks on tape
Message-ID: <265@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 90 01:48:48 GMT
References: <11702@venera.isi.edu> <9578@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Tempe, AZ
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In article <9578@cbmvax.commodore.com> unland@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Rick Unland - Special Projects Group) writes:
> I am looking for someone that has the entire Fred Fish collection and also
> has the ability to put this collection onto tape (A DC 6150 in TAR format).

Better make that two or three 150Mb tapes, given that each disk will probably
produce about 1Mb of tar archive data (remember archive overhead).

This does remind me though, I may soon be in a position to provide this
service.  The major lack at this time is an ~400Mb disk to hold copies of
all of the disks.  I am curious as to what the demand might be.  If large
enough, I might decide to invest the $2k-3k necessary to acquire the disk.

I would expect that the distribution fees would be in line with what other
such services (FSF, TeX distributors, GEO data, etc) charge, about $100
per tape.  Thus the cost of obtaining the entire library in this manner
would only be about $300, versus the $600 or so to get it on 3.5" Amiga disks.

Email me if you would be seriously interested in this service.

-Fred
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