Re: Our very own CD-ROM (was: Re: Apple2 archive at grind.isca.uiowa.edu)

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens) writes:

>Forget CD-ROM. Mastering costs around $1250. Sure, the actual CD-ROMs are
>cheap then ... but what do you do with 1000 Apple // CD ROMs? Noone will
>buy them. Heck, we'll be good if we even sell 100 ....

>Remember that we have to pay up-front for this. Sinking $11250 into
>this just to discover it doesn't sell can't be it, really. I am convinced
>that for us, CD-WO is the way to go.

  Nope.  Quality Computers has CD-ROM mastering equipment, and would
probably master the CDs for you.  Once you have the equipment ($4000
these day) a master costs $40, and you can get dups off of that for
around $2 each.

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