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- #: 655 S3/CDROM Applications
- 12-May-88 13:40:49
- Sb: Image Club ART ROOM
- Fm: Anne Concepcion 71571,1337
- To: ALL
-
- Hi all! I'm a new member of your forum, and am I glad I found you! I see from
- reading the messages that at least one of you (Len Caltman) has the Image Club
- CDROM, as I do. I've owned it for about 6 weeks and it has already paid for
- itself by allowing me to do jobs that I would've had to turn down before, due
- to lack of fonts/artwork.
-
- I run a Desktop Publishing biz in Chicago, and I think I'm the only one in this
- windy city to own a CDROM! It's been pretty lonely... I belong to "The Rest of
- Us", a local MUG, and demonstrated my new toy at the latest graphics SIG
- meeting...they were blown away, to say the least! Especially at the ease of
- setting it up, since the Toshiba has two external SCSI ports and its ID is
- factory set at 0 (tho easily changed via external DIP switches). You should
- have seen their jaws drop after I installed the fonts (took about 10 seconds),
- then went to Superpaint and chose "Font"...font names extending down the entire
- screen, in alphabetical order, and the one at the bottom was only in the "C's"!
- then scrolling through all of them, it was wonderful.
-
- The day before the demo, I called Image Club for any last minute info. I asked
- the salesman for the sales figures, and he said 48! Only 48 of the things have
- been sold so far in the US...guess most Mac'ers are waiting for Apple's. But
- the whole Art Room package is only $100 more than the Apple drive itself!
-
- Also, maybe someone can tell me what is happening with LoDown's 50Megs of
- shareware on a laserdisk...it was supposed to be included with the ArtRoom
- package, but since Image Club started buying its drives directly from Toshiba,
- it's not included anymore...the salesman at IC tells me it'll cost me bout $300
- to get it. He also says LoDown's heading down the tubes...any info?
- Anne-Marie
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- #: 656 S1/General Information
- 12-May-88 14:58:15
- Sb: #561-I'm a new user!
- Fm: rolfe windward 70014,646
- To: RICH MENARD 75410,316
-
- Rich,
- I'm in the same boat that you are ... a computer coordinator of a secondary,
- private school (in Los Angeles) who needs to make some difficult hardware &
- software decisions in the next few months. This forum is unfortunately rather
- new and the "traffic" is somewhat low (I posted a msg to the sysop a few days
- ago and have yet to receive a reply) none the less, there are some very
- knowledgable folks who visit here and we may get lucky.
- I'll be happy to keep you posted with what little I have discovered if you
- think that will help you ... it would almost certainly help me if you did the
- same. Perhaps by doing some pooling we can develop some solutions.
- - RW
-
-
-
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- #: 657 S4/Adding CDROM Access
- 12-May-88 16:54:23
- Sb: #644-#Standards
- Fm: Ty Wait 76701,231
- To: rolfe windward 70014,646 (X)
-
- Rolfe, I suggest the first network to consider is AppleTalk. This is a very
- cost effective backbone, as long as small chunks of data are to be transmitted
- (I'm assuming small file transfer and reasonable printer use are what you would
- use it for). The last several issues of trade pubs like PC Week and InfoWorld
- contain a few product announcements by companies with PC boards that give them
- access to AppleTalk. Then, a piece of software such as MacServe (a PC version
- will soon be out) would let your workstations share printers and access
- community file servers. Standards 1, 2, 3 I heartily agree with. Hope this
- helps. Good luck. -Ty
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 658 S1/General Information
- 12-May-88 16:56:46
- Sb: #623-New User
- Fm: Ty Wait 76701,231
- To: Mike Vergara 73547,2070
-
- Welcome, Mike. Suggest getting a copy of "CDROM The New Papyrus" from
- Microsoft Press to start offline learning, check out the libraries, and ask
- lots of questions here. Hope to see you back soon. -Ty Wait
-
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- #: 659 S1/General Information
- 12-May-88 17:05:40
- Sb: #626-#FUTURE CD TECHNOLOGY
- Fm: Ty Wait 76701,231
- To: HECTOR L. PADRON 73117,1253 (X)
-
- Tandy has announced the read/write technology you mentioned, but don't expect
- to see it for two or three years. As far as putting your filing cabinet
- contents on optical media:
- a) how much are you willing to spend (in time if you do it
- yourself, or $ for someone else -- $1-3 per sheet of paper?)
- b) how would you use it? a full text search could take hours
- if the disc were full, and indexing would take a lot of space.
- c) are there pictures in your data? how do you want them handled? -Ty
- Wait
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 660 S1/General Information
- 12-May-88 18:50:48
- Sb: #652-Tandy's Thor CD Advance?
- Fm: mike obryan 71410,340
- To: J.S. Frentzen 76117,2127
-
- Jeff, my vote goes for a considerable dose of *ploy* . Doesn't 18-24 months
- seem kinda premature to make an announcement of
- that kind anyway? Lots can happen in that impressive an interval! how ya
- been?
-
-
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- #: 661 S1/General Information
- 13-May-88 04:55:02
- Sb: #647-Ignorant ?s
- Fm: Raymond G. Harder 72160,1373
- To: Berkeley MUG 70007,2271 (X)
-
- Thanx, I am interested in both products so I'll keep my eyes peeled.
-
-
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- #: 662 S4/Adding CDROM Access
- 13-May-88 10:50:03
- Sb: #657-Standards
- Fm: rolfe windward 70014,646
- To: Ty Wait 76701,231
-
- Thanks Ty ... that was the sort of reinforcement I've been looking for. What
- do you think of the TOPS network .... does it seem a reasonable alternative as
- an AppleShare server?
- - RW
-
-
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- #: 663 S1/General Information
- 13-May-88 20:20:01
- Sb: #639-#TAPCIS etc.
- Fm: Earle Robinson 70135,141
- To: Orville Fudpucker 70130,372 (X)
-
- Nice to run into once again. I haven't seen you around where I usually am for
- some time. Noting your pleasure in tapcis, I wonder if you've seen the latest
- ATO. It really has the same features, and is free, vs. $80 for tapcis. Of
- course, you got yours when the price was lower, but it is a point.
-
- I heard you were moving to nyc. -er
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 665 S3/CDROM Applications
- 13-May-88 22:23:40
- Sb: #635-#ALDE PUBLISHING DISCS
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: Vic Wagner/Metadigm 76046,3004 (X)
-
- I'm sorry, but I have to disagree about the price of drives. I think that $700
- is a fair price for a peripheral that gives you instant access to gigabytes of
- data. I just paid $1200 for a hard disk. I know that was a litle high, but
- they go from about $600 to several thousand and nobody is complaining about it.
- Bob
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-
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- 1 Reply
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- #: 668 S1/General Information
- 14-May-88 03:10:26
- Sb: #659-FUTURE CD TECHNOLOGY
- Fm: Mark Schneider 71330,467
- To: Ty Wait 76701,231
-
- Ty - a full text search of a full CD-ROM could take HOURS? Assuming
- intelligent indexing and good search programs, how many megabytes of text could
- one reasonably place on a disk? What are the limiting factors?
- Thanks, Mark
-
-
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- #: 669 S4/Adding CDROM Access
- 14-May-88 15:49:20
- Sb: #HELLO!
- Fm: Neil G. Gordes 71465,154
- To: ALL
-
- I'm new too both CDROM & this forum. Use CD's at work for such things as the
- Readers' Guide, Newsbank, Lib. of Congress holdings, and also have purchased
- PC-SIG #1-813 CD-ROM. I have access to Hitachi 1500s and 2500s. Certainly is a
- neat new technology. I am wondering, where can I get the MICROSOFT CDROM DOS
- 3.3 extension? No luch as of two weeks ago on the MS forum.
-
- 1 Reply
-
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- #: 670 S1/General Information
- 14-May-88 18:43:13
- Sb: #663-TAPCIS etc.
- Fm: Orville Fudpucker 70130,372
- To: Earle Robinson 70135,141 (X)
-
- Good to hear from you! I noticed you over on PCMAG a week or so ago but didn't
- say anything, although I was tempted to send you a pun or two or perhaps even
- some "Rural humus" |-). I was just lurking and getting TAP set up and trying to
- catch up on all the messages. Noted Joan's name & Sally Ryce & others from the
- IBMNET.
-
- I dropped out of the IBM sigs & took my CI$ elsewhere last Sept. I felt like
- Don had treated Howard shabbily and rather than get into an exchange of
- diatribes etc, I just voted with my feet & left.
-
- Zapcis was lower priced, but I was so pleased with it that I sent in $100, so I
- got the manual & the upgrade to Tapcis. Shortly thereafter I bought another one
- at the $79 fixed price for the home computer. Haven't seen the latest ATO. I
- did pay $25 for the Procomm Plus update but really haven't used it much.
-
- Several times (I believe on this sig recently was one of them) I've responded
- with a recommendation of ATO (free) or TAPCIS ($79) and then gone on to extoll
- the virtues (as I perceive them) of TAPCIS.
-
- "moving to nyc". What a viscious, unprincipled rumor. I've heard of nyc, and
- even have been there (some years ago) but I'm happy right here in the vast
- wastelands of Texas @ Grandma's Massage Parlor "In Beautiful Downtown Plano",
- also the home of Willie Mae's bakery, maker of the TSJD which is known far and
- wide (at least on AVSIG).
-
- Just (last week) upgraded my Main(?) Frame computer from a Perkin-Elmer 3205 to
- a Concurrent 3212.
-
- Best regards, Orville
-
-
-
-
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- #: 671 S3/CDROM Applications
- 15-May-88 00:26:33
- Sb: #665-#ALDE PUBLISHING DISCS
- Fm: Vic Wagner/Metadigm 76046,3004
- To: bob helfant 75530,214 (X)
-
- I didn't say that "I" thought they were too expensive. I wanted to, and
- believe I did say that when the price drops to about twice what audio CD
- players go for, then we'll really see the explosion. BTW where do you get more
- than .5gig on a drive?
-
-
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 672 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 08:14:02
- Sb: #586-#Tandy's Thor CD Advance?
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: Aegis Development 76067,2500 (X)
-
- Re: CD-ROM based games
-
- I don't think so, not at this time anyway. I don't have the statistics
- of CD-ROM reading devices that are presently in the hands of micro-computer
- users, but I would assume that they are small. The price of the hardware, the
- rumors of CD-ROM vs CD-I vs CD-V as the way to go, and now the rumors of
- Tandy's THOR technology along with other rumors about eraseable optical devices
- will most likely limit the base of users. I don't see even inexpensive games
- making a dent until all of this technological `dust' settles down and
- inexpensive `standards' emerge (or atleast when all these rumors either come to
- fruition or die `on the tree'!
-
- -RSL-
-
-
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 673 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 08:14:12
- Sb: #590-Introduction
- Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
- To: Wayne Lee 76650,323
-
- Welcome aboard Wayne!
-
- I'm a general internist, but I have friends in Emergency Medicine and
- they have told me about Emergidex. I understand that it is VERY expensive, but
- then most medical equipment tends to be. From the description that my friend
- gave me its like a supercharged compilation of important information that's
- retrievable faster than textbooks allow. Just the thing to show off CD-ROM's
- capabilities!
-
- -RSL_MD-
-
-
-
-
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- #: 674 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 10:19:58
- Sb: #kurzweil
- Fm: John McCormick 76360,44
- To: 71330,467 (X)
-
- Kurzweil announced a new scanner at Comdex on the 10th that might interest you.
- The Model 30 has a flat bed scanner with 30 page sheet feed mechanism and is
- the first scanner to be able to deal with columns. Kurzweil scanners now
- support 7 languages. The price is $13,950 and it looks like the answer to your
- needs. -jm
-
- 1 Reply
-
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- #: 675 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 15:03:58
- Sb: #674-kurzweil
- Fm: Mark Schneider 71330,467
- To: John McCormick 76360,44
-
- How exciting, John!!! And thank you for thinking of me! Tell me more though,
- please: is it basically the Discover model with a flatbed? I.E. does it have
- the same processor, firmware/software, etc. as the magnificent Discover? When
- will it be AVAILABLE? Can I borrow $13,950?
- Thanks for everything, Mark
-
-
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- #: 676 S3/CDROM Applications
- 15-May-88 18:44:37
- Sb: #671-ALDE PUBLISHING DISCS
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: Vic Wagner/Metadigm 76046,3004 (X)
-
- The drive is not what I see rated. I have seen CDs rated from 550 megabytes to
- 600 + megabytes. I believe that they are all about the same and 550 is the
- number I see the most. Bob
-
-
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- #: 677 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 18:46:09
- Sb: #604-#New member
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: Len Kaltman, Comstock 71401,216 (X)
-
- Will this be in a format readable on a PC? Bob Helfant
-
- 1 Reply
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- #: 678 S1/General Information
- 15-May-88 18:47:43
- Sb: #623-New User
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: Mike Vergara 73547,2070
-
- Please call my company for a free catalog. We have been selling optical drives
- and software for about a year. 1-800-MEGABYT Bob Helfant, Compact Disk
- Products.
-
-
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- #: 679 S3/CDROM Applications
- 15-May-88 18:49:03
- Sb: #654-ALDE CDROM DISC
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: John Ausland 73240,2704
-
- Thanks for the mention, John. Bob Helfant
-
-
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- #: 680 S4/Adding CDROM Access
- 15-May-88 18:51:04
- Sb: #669-HELLO!
- Fm: bob helfant 75530,214
- To: Neil G. Gordes 71465,154
-
- The MS DOS extension is included with most drives, but if you need it, we can
- sell it to you. Compact Disk Products 1-800-MEGABYT Bob Helfant
-
-
-
- #: 681 S1/General Information
- 16-May-88 12:19:10
- Sb: #677-New member
- Fm: Len Kaltman, Comstock 71401,216
- To: bob helfant 75530,214
-
- Dear Bob, Comstock Desktop Photography will have both Apple and High Sierra
- drivers on the disc. Should work fine with either. Regards, Len Kaltman
-
-
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- #: 682 S1/General Information
- 16-May-88 13:36:14
- Sb: #672-Tandy's Thor CD Advance?
- Fm: Aegis Development 76067,2500
- To: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
-
- Maybe Apple's CD-ROM drive will help. I do agree that the amount of
- speculation on CD-I, CD-V, and now THOR hurts the current industry....
-
- "Any announced product is superior to any released
- product..."
-
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-