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- From: Monty Solomon <monty%roscom@think.com>
- Subject: Re: CD-ROM - 3 Month wait??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.122538.10953@proponent.com>
- Sender: monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon)
- Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
- Organization: Proponent
- References: <BszJqu.55E@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:25:38 GMT
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- In article <BszJqu.55E@spock.dis.cccd.edu> maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice
- Shihadi) writes:
- > I got the drive last week after specifically ordering drive and
- > software to be shipped together. Now the warranty is running while
- > it sits in its box. Anybody out there know of any Unix and
- > C-programming reference CD's I could get to use with my lonely
- > new CD-ROM player?
-
- You can order any of the following titles from Walnut Creek CDROM at
- 800 786 9907 (+1 510 947 5996) or rab@cdrom.com.
-
- The most current version of this catalog is available via anonymous ftp
- from cdrom.com:/pub/catalog.
-
- Simtel20 MSDOS CD-ROM. This disc contains about 530 Megabytes of utilities,
- programming tools, source code, technical documentation, etc. It includes
- the entire Simtel20 MSDOS Archive. There is an index file in each directory,
- and a master index file in the top directory, that describes each file. The
- current editon of this disc was released in June 1992. The price is $24.95.
-
- CICA MicroSoft Windows CD-ROM. This disc contains 140 Megabytes of MicroSoft
- Windows programs. It includes hundreds of utilities, games, fonts, bitmaps,
- etc. All are written especially for Windows. It includes the entire CICA
- Windows collection from Indiana University. This disc was produced in
- July 1992. The price is $24.95.
-
- Garbo MSDOS/MAC CD-ROM. This disc contains the Garbo archive from Vaasa
- University in Finland. It contains almost 400 Megabytes of software. About
- 250 meg is for MSDOS, and about 150 meg is for Macintoshes. The price is
- $24.95.
-
- Source Code CD-ROM. This disc contains the Usenet source archives, the
- Simtel20 Unix-C Archive, and a large collection of MSDOS source code. There
- is a total of about 600 megabytes of source code. It is mostly C, but also
- has some pascal, lisp, c++, modula2, fortran, assembly, etc. This disc was
- made in March 1992. The price is $39.95.
-
- X11R5 and GNU CD-ROM. This disc contains all the X11R5 Window System sources,
- including all the contributed software, all the GNU source code, the Usenet
- comp.sources.x archives, and sparc binaries and libraries for the Gnu programs
- and the X11R5 server and clients. The X11R5 sources are at patch level nine.
- This disc was made in February 1992, and is also distributed by the Sun User
- Group. The price is $39.95.
-
- AB20 Amiga CD-ROM. This disc contains the ab20.larc.nasa.gov Amiga archive.
- There is about 130 megabytes of Amiga programs, and all of comp.sources.amiga
- and comp.binaries.amiga. Ab20 has gone offline, so this is a snapshot of the
- final state of the archive. This disc will not work with CDTV. This CDROM
- was made in May, 1992. The price is $24.95.
-
- OS/2 Archives CD-ROM. This disc contains the OS/2 archives from novell.com
- and hobbes.nmsu.edu. There is about 2000 OS/2 programs (150 Meg) on the
- disc. This disc was made in May, 1992. The price is $24.95.
-
- Desktop Library CD-ROM. This disc contains several thousand works of
- classic literature, historical documents, and technical information.
- The complete works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Virgil, Dante and Milton
- are on the disc, along with books by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Stephen
- Crane, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. The text of many treaties
- and international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, the 1991 CIA
- world fact book, dictionaries, thesaruses, and word lists. All the
- files are plain text ASCII, so this disc can be used on almost any
- system. The price is $39.95.
-
- Gifs Galore CD-ROM. Over 6000 full color images. Dozens of categories,
- including art, aviation, birds, cars, cats, clip_art, dogs, fantasy, fish,
- flowers, fractals, insects, logos, mammals, maps, military, people, places,
- raytrace, sci-fi, space, sports, swimsuit, technology, tv. Arrays of reduced
- images are provided on the disc for quick previewing. Viewers and utilities
- are provided for MSDOS, MS Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari-ST, NeXT, Sparc,
- DecStation and X11. The price is $24.95.
-
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