Re: Apple2 archive drive for grind.isca.uiowa.edu

[grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)]

>There is a department/division (Second Look Computing, or somesuch title) that
>does do CD-mastering on campus for basically the cost of a blank media ($40-
>50).  So it is possible.  But how many II users have a CD-drive?  Could we
>make a yearly CD, economically?  Would we have to run another 6 month 
>contribution drive to get enough $$$ to do a run of xxx CD's?

     If they can do single run-offs onto those special writable
discs it might make the cost reasonable.  Instead of creating 250
discs in the hopes of selling them (at great cost), single discs
can be made one-at-a-time.
     Of course, this depends a lot on exactly what kind of hardware
they have to work with, and how much they charge per disc.

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Grover Thomas       grover@emunix.emich.edu 
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