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Article #105Re: Origin - CD-only forever!
From: doc... John Sabean
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:56
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 20:56
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In article <kk_ng.240...@postoffice.utas.edu.au>, kk...@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Ng, Kai Koon) writes: >In article <38n309$b...@mojo.eng.umd.edu> doc...@glue.umd.edu (John Sabean) writes: >>Origin has been handling this techology.... What do I mean? Take >>WC Armada for example. 13 megs it takes up. This easily fits on 3 1/2" >>disks and costs just as much to duplicate, perhaps cheaper.... (My >>numbers on CD reproduction are a year old, so don't quote me on that :) ) >>There is no need for it to be a CD only product, as it is now. Yes, you > >WC Armada is available on diskettes. It is not CD ROM only. Well, it WAS available. The person at the Egghead store I got mine from said they did have a diskette version, but they didn't have any more and Origin was not going to ship any more. They duplicated one batch of 3.5" disks, and plan to duplicate no more..... Esentially, now, it is CD ROM only.....
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!cs.umd.edu!mojo.eng.umd.edu!docmani From: doc...@eng.umd.edu (John Sabean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim Subject: Re: Origin - CD-only forever! Date: 28 Oct 1994 20:56:54 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <38roim$8sh@mojo.eng.umd.edu> References: <38ep3g$5gj@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <1994Oct24.013219.10665@pimacc.pima.edu> <Cy6wCC.A22@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <Pine.A32.3.90.941025111646.71808B-100000@isisb.oit.unc.edu> <38jokd$fss@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> <Pine.A32.3.90.941026020500.699 <kk_ng.240.05AFD371@postoffice.utas.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: valkyrie.umd.edu Originator: doc...@valkyrie.umd.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit