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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Phil & Dave, where are you?  All is forgiven: come home!
Message-ID: <10159@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 90 20:19:47 GMT
References: <7497@tank.uchicago.edu> <7202@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <38436@apple.Apple.COM> <46056@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM> <38493@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <38493@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes:
>All I can say is that Apple is committed to CD-ROM technology, especially for
>our developers.  If you are serious about development on an Apple platform,
>you WANT a CD-ROM player and you want it now--don't wait for the last-minute
>rush.

Actually, I want to wait for the last-minute rush, because then the
prices will be less ridiculous.  I'm not about to pay even the
factor-of-five inflated "discount" price at this point; if I do, then
I'll be kicking myself left and right in a year or two when the players
only cost one or two hundred dollars.

>Let's just say that more and more CD-ROM material is coming and we
>believe it is the least expensive way to get lots of information and tools
>to our developer base (non-Partners and non-Associates included).

Least expensive way for you, perhaps.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

These are not my opinions, those of my ex-employers, my old schools, my
relatives, my friends, or really any rational person whatsoever.