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Re: Origin - CD-only forever!

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From: yo... Marshall C. Yount
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 01:33

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>	Well, in that case they could go back to the drawing board and fix
>everything that was wrong in the original and then release it on CD (just as
>the CD ver. of Strike Commander was not the problematic floppy mirror)...
>or they could release it as U8.01... it has been done before.

>Like someone,
>somewhere once said: `if you eliminate the impossible, then you have to find the
>"how" to make it possible' (forgive me Mr. Spock (Star Trek 6), I did not mean
>to misquote you).

I think Spock said was more along the lines of, "If you eliminate the
impossible, then whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is what you
are looking for." and I think he was quoting Arthur Conan Doyle (via 
Sherlock Holmes)...confirmation, anyone?


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