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Re: walnut creek cd rom
- Subject: Re: walnut creek cd rom
- From: drhirudo@mail.bg (Ventzislav Tzvetkov)
- Date: 2 Sep 2004 23:03:04 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.tandy, comp.sys.ti
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"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<tnIZc.8134$Ij5.1991@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com>...
> > > When WalnutCreek was online on the original form - cdrom.com - they
> > > had close to 500GB of disk space in use. Thats going to be
> > > about 700 CDs. Care to be more specific as to WHAT you are looking
> > > for.
> >
> >
> > the cpm and atari st / amiga cd's :-) damn that sux that they had to
> > "close" what happened to them ?
>
> The Creek dried up.
>
> Seriously, the Internet killed off the CD-ROM library biz about the same way
> it killed the BBS's that used them for file base resources.
No it's not the Internet which killed the CD-ROMs libraries, but the
faster and faster connections. The AminetCD existed until 2002, and
people with modem connections were happily buying it, since it was
much cheaper for them to buy the CD than to download hundreds of
megabytes of software. But now when almost everyone have access to
broadband connections, buying CD archives makes no sense, although
there is a plus in owning old archives - if you are looking for an
older version of a program, which is not available on the net anymore,
since it was replaced by a newer version - a CD-ROM archive is the
best place to look. Also the the CD versions contained some
excommercial software bundled as a plus.
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