TABBS CD-ROM (was What's New From SSII)

[Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com>]

Until now, I haven't really said anything online about the TABBS CD-ROM,
mainly because I was waiting to get copies of the CD-ROM for distribution.

A slew of copies arrived this morning, and I've just spent the past few
hours going through the CD-ROM. It's going to take much, much longer -
maybe even years - before I discover everything on the TABBS CD-ROM, as
there is more than 600 megabytes of compressed files on the CD.

As those of you who attend Kfest 98 know, the TABBS CD-ROM was put together
by Sir Ewen Wannop, of Spectrum fame. For years, Ewen ran a BBS system for
various Apple II British user groups, and the TABBS CD includes everything
that was ever uploaded to that BBS, plus I presume, a whole lot more.

It's a hybrid CD, with software on it for Apple II, Macintosh and IBM PC.

It includes, among other things, the entire Apple2000 Apple II disk
library, as well as the more recent British Apple IIgs Club library. In
addition, the British Apple IIgs Club put out a monthly newsletter in
HyperStudio format, and all of those are on the disk as well. Each one of
those newsletter disks contains articles, news, and of course software.

In looking at the CD for just a few hours, I feel overwhelmed with
software. For that reason, I've asked Ewen if he can send me a complete
catalog of everything on the disk (as it is, each folder on the CD has a
catalog listing, but there are probably 100 different folders) so that I
can make that info available so that folks can see what's on the disk.

Like I said, it's going to take me a long time to go through the disk just
to see what's there. Then again, I can think of worse things to do with 
my time than to discover a treasure chest of hundreds of megabytes 
of Apple II and IIGS goodies ;-)

In any case, the TABBS Library Archive CD-ROM is now available 
exclusively from Shareware Solutions II for $25. It comes on one large 
HFS volume.

To order the TABBS CD-ROM, send checks/money orders to:

 Joe Kohn
 Shareware Solutions II
 166 Alpine St
 San Rafael, CA 94901

For additional information about Shareware Solutions II - the largest 
distributor of Apple II software on the planet - please visit 
http://www.crl.com/~joko

Joe