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Re: IIgs Sales Demo archive?



In article <4MAR199813565577@vax2.concordia.ca>, spec@vax2.concordia.ca
(Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>In article ecitnerppa@aol.com (Ecitnerppa) writes...
>
>>I vaguely remember there being a jazzy demonstration disk that Apple dealers
>>would let run on the ][gs when it was first released. It showed off the
>>capabilities of the then-new ][gs. 
>
>    Yep, that's the one that began by playing a digitized recording of 
>a jazz band (most will remember the saxaphone solo, with animated rings
>traveling through the outline of a sax that slowly transforms into a
>picture of a band. The crisp and clear female voice saying "Introducing 
>the Apple IIgs!" is something that also stuck in my mind). :)
>
>>I think that an archive of it exists on the "ground" ftp site, but I'm 
>>unable to find it. Anyone know where it is? Thanks.
>
>    Probably, but you can definitely find it on the Caltech site at:
>ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/Zocalo/pub/apple2/demos/ (the files you want
>are called "salesdemo.1.shk" and "salesdemo.2.shk"). If you have a
>ROM 3 forget about downloading it, it is not compatible and there is
>no way to get it running (at least not unless someone patches it).
>
>    There is also "m.v.souris.shk" in the same directory, it's the
>1986 dealer demo from Apple France (I uploaded it several years 
>back, it seems to have the same legal status as the USA version).
>
>Mitchell Spector
>spec@vax2.concordia.ca

could someone email me these files?  I downloaded them in binary format
froun caltech but GSHK couldn't open them.

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