Re: Apple II Tech Notes in Mac format

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <1hi5lcr.1b31l111xtkopuN%bieling@terra.es>,
 bieling@terra.es (Jorge ChB) wrote:

> Paul R. Santa-Maria <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > According to my Google research, the Apple II Tech Notes
> > were distributed in a Macintosh word processor format
> > before the November 1988 revisions.
> > 
> > So, does anyone still have any old Apple DTS disks?
> 
> The Apple II tech notes in developer **CDs** came as plain text files.
> The oldest cd I've found right now over here is "Phil & Dave's excellent
> CD", that is, the "Developer CD Series volume II", it is the release
> version of the "prototypical" CD launched at the 1989 Worldwide
> Developers Conference. I believe I had an older one, I seem to recall it
> was called something like "yellow submarine" or whatever.. ?
> 
> CDs were such a new and expensive peripheral by then, that probably
> anything before '89 didn't come in a CD, is that right ?

Around the middle of 1989, IIRC, Apple made a HUGE push to get CD-ROM 
drives into the hands of their developers. Part of that was steep 
discounts on the drive (list was 1200-1300 USD) and another aspect was 
to start releasing the developer materials on CD. Two months before the 
CD you have, the developer mailing was a big package of 3.5" floppies.

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