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From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Gifs Galore CD-ROM, 6000+ images for $25
Date: 20 Aug 1992 08:21:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sabotage.berkeley.edu

The new Gifs Galore CD-ROM has over 6000 full color images in 650 Meg.
The pictures are sorted into dozens of categories, including art, aviation,
birds, cars, cats, clip_art, dogs, fantasy, fish, flowers, fractals, insects,
logos, mammals, maps, military, people, places, raytrace, sci-fi, space,
sports, swimsuit, technology, tv, vietnam.  Arrays of reduced images are
provided on the disc for quick previewing.  Viewers and utilities are provided
for MSDOS, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari-ST, NeXT, Sparc,
DecStation and X11.

The discs contains most of the images from the wuarchive gif archive,
and lots of other images from other sources.  There are no adult pictures
on the disc.

The price is $24.95.  Shipping and handling is $5 (per order, not per disc)
for US/Can/Mex, and $10 for airmail overseas.  If you live in California,
please add sales tax.  You can send a check or money order to

    Walnut Creek CDROM
    1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
    Walnut Creek, CA  94596
    USA

Or you can order by MasterCard/ Visa.  If you do not trust email with
your credit card number, you can call

    +1 800 786-9907
    +1 510 947-5996
    +1 510 947-1644 FAX

I will send a free disc to anybody that contributed any images.  This
includes anyone that contributed any images to the wuarchive gif archive
prior to August 1992.  If you want a free disc please send me the name
of the file you created and a complete mailing address.

Here is a list of other CD-ROMs available:

Simtel20 MSDOS CD-ROM, 550 Meg, June 1992                       $24.95
CICA MicroSoft Windows CD-ROM, 140 Meg, July 92                 $24.95
Usenet Source Code CD-ROM, 600 Meg, March 1992		        $39.95
Garbo MSDOS/MAC CD-ROM, 250 Meg MSDOS, 150 Meg Mac, May 92      $24.95
X11R5 and GNU source w/ sparc binaries, Feb 1992                $39.95
AB20 Amiga CD-ROM, May 1992 (Doesn't work on CDTV)              $24.95
OS/2 Archives CD-ROM, hobbes & novell.com archives May 1992     $24.95
Desktop Library CDROM, 2000+ etexts, Aug 1992                   $39.95
Caddies                                                          $4.95

	-bob
From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Desktop Library CD - buy it!
Date: 22 Aug 1992 17:09:54 -0400
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

ag129@cl.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
: 
: A statistical analysis of spelling in 17th-century English texts 
: would be quite useless if they had been typed in from a modernised
: or Americanised edition, for example (or just typed in with lots of
: mistakes, of course). 

If you're going to do a statistical analysis of spelling on any text
you'll want the original materials, at least in facsimile edition if not
the real thing.  Most people who get these things just want to read them,
for content, or for the story, or to say that they have them on line.  

Scholarly editions cost beaucoup bucks compared to popular editions.

  Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
        Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 998 4562


Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Kodak Photo CD?
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 12:22:04 GMT

Hi,
could someone please e-mail me some information about the Kodak Photo CD?

thank you,
Adrian
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alh@einoed.in-berlin.de   Berlin 36. Tel.: 030/611 31 26,  Fax.: 030/826 98 75
                                         "Christianity Is Stupid" -Negativland
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: doc@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Smith)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster CD-ROM, again
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:52:45 GMT

alfredo@bull.it (Alfredo Cotroneo) writes:

>Hello There from Milano, Italy.

>I have just bought a SoundBlaster Pro with the idea in mind (!) that once
>a CD ROM for it would have become available, that should have been cheaper,
>maybe just due to the fact that I had already payed for the interface which
>is built in the SounBlaster Prot.

>After checking with a local distributor, however, the SoundBlaster Pro
>upgrade kit (CD Drive plus 3 CD ROMs, cables, and drivers) I was
>surprised that its cost is much higher than similiar CDROMs which include
>the SCSI (or other proprietary) interface card for the PC.
>The price for the above kit in Milano i the equivalent of US$670, while other
>drives would cost US$350-500.

>Would there be a reason (beside saving a slot in the motherboard) to 
>buy the SoundBlaster Pro CDROM drive? 
>e.g. Is there any performance advantag vs other drive?

>P.S.: Prices in Europe are usually higher (much) than in the USA,
>Anybody knows how the Soundblaster CDROM would cost in the USA?

Yeah, it costs around $350 in the US.




>Thanks, as usual I will be happy to summarize if there is interest.


>Alfredo E. Cotroneo, Milano, Italy
>email: a.cotroneo2it12.bull.it


Romana: "I thought you said we were coming here for May week?"
Doctor: "I did, May week's in June."
	                **Shada and The Five Doctors**
        Jeffrey Smith   --KD4AYH--  doc@catt.ncsu.edu
From: dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Walnut Creek #, recommendations?
Date: 15 Aug 92 15:50:41 GMT
Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab


[]
I have just bought a CDROM, and would like to get some of
the "dump ftp site to CDROM" type disks that are out there.
I understand Walnut Creek produces these - how can I get
in touch with them? Also, does anyone have recommendations
for other companies or for particular disks? I would like
things like the FTP site disks, GNU programs, X windows,
and collections of books.

Isaac Dimitrovsky (dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu)
"Sincerity is *the* most important thing in show business -
  so once you learn to fake that you've got it made."
- Joe Franklin
From: dl1@ukc.ac.uk (Duncan Langford)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Desktop Library CD - buy it!
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:23:26 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Walnut Creek have produced a quite stunning new CD in their 'Desktop Library'; it's
one of those rare disks which everyone should own. No, really.

For those who haven't yet heard of it, this innocent CD /literally/ contains the
contents of a small library - and not just a large number of thin books, but an
excellent selection of the biggys, too (I count Moby Dick and Tom Jones as typical
biggies; and there are hundreds of the damn things). It's full of classics, from
Greeks to modern European, not neglecting lighter stuff (Peter Pan to Wizard of Oz).
There are masses of historical and legal material. Poetry; megabytes of poetry.

As a taste, John Locke (he of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) is followed
by Jack London (Call of the Wild - and much else); Longfellow (Hiawatha); Machiavelli; 
and the Magna Carta (considered important here in the UK!)

Next comes Marx's Communist Manifesto and Herman Melville's Billy Budd...

Back in the 60's I can remember talking at length about the 'intellect/emotion dichotomy',
when you knew something to be true intellectually but couldn't grasp it emotionally.
I /know/ how much data can be packed onto a CD, and this one is by no means full; but
I was continually stopping my examination of it to go, 'Oh, wow!'.

I maybe ought to add that I have no connection with Walnut Creek, other than as an
outspoken critic of their Garbo disk!

- duncan
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: What is Project Gutenberg?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:01:25 GMT

In article <134@rd821.UUCP> a036450@rd821.UUCP (Bob Goldrich) writes:
>The title says it all.  Thanks.

Please see
 27444 Aug 20 21:19 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/post10.zip

I only have the information stored.  I don't know more about it
myself. 

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not
have all the files.  If you do not receive my reply within five
days, please ask your own site's system manager to construct a
returnable mail path for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: niwr@pfbs.philips.se (Niklas Wretman)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Tried Toshiba-Microsoft CD offer?
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:49:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment BCFI AB, Sweden



I was at Microsoft Win32 Euro Conference in Brussels last month,
and got the special offer to by Toshiba KT-3301SA CD-ROM Kit.

My problem is that I've found it very difficult to get
in touch with the Swedish distributor. Have anybody
tried this kit?? Is it still worth trying to by the stuff?

/Niklas Wretman (niwr@pfbs.philips.se)


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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: jacob@max.cc.brandeis.edu ( )
Subject: Re: CD Guide (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Organization: Brandeis University Math Department
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 06:06:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.200049.6117@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas) writes:

>The information you get from the CD Guide can be found in Schwann and
>Schwann Spectrum at a much lower price.  Plus, the information will be
>much more up to date.  For reviews, there's always Rolling Stone, Stereo
>Review, Audio and the paper version of the CD Guide and similar
>publications (plus a number of great books).  The CD Guide is a great
>concept that fails miserably in this implementation.
> 
>Rating= Zero Stars
> 
>CD Guide
>WGE Publishing

Note I've talked to someone at Schwann and they mentioned that they have
plans putting "Opus" and "Spectrum" on CD-ROM but those plans are not very
definite. They gave me their owner's telephone number in London (England)
for further inquiries but I don't think I want to know all that bad :-)

Also "Phonolog" and "Laserlog" two popular tape, LP and CD guides you find
in record stores (those yellow and blue pages, that's "Phonolog"; the white
pages, that's "Laserlog") and produced by some company in San Diego whose
name I forget, are (according to a person at that company I've talked to)
being put on CD-ROM and marketed like that by Billboard. Just be warned
that the suscription to the (paper version of) "Phonolog" is around $500/year
and try to imagine how much the arrangement with the CD-ROMs might cost.
Of course you get paper updates for those guides every week. I don't know
how that works with CD-ROMs, which might possibly make the CD-ROM actually
cheaper.

In terms of cost effectiveness, a CD-ROM version of the Schwann guides will
probably be the thing (if they are reasonble -- a reminder that "Opus" is
around $35/year and "Spectrum" is around $25/year)
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Simtel20
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:45:04 GMT
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, SG919C@GWUVM.BITNET (Raad Alhamdan) says:

>Hello All,
>I just got Simtel20 for MSDOS... The way I see to extract files from it
>is as follows:
>              1- Think of the catagory you want.
>              2- Go there and read the 00_index file.
>              3- Select and copy to HardDisk.
>              4- Dearchive and use.
>
>Now, I don't know about you people, but this is a long procedure for me..
>Does anyone have a less time consuming way..
>If you have the Night Owl 6.0 you know what I am talking about.. You only
>run one program and then every thing is automaticly done!
>
>Any ideas about this...
>
>                                         -Raad
>
The popular file manager written by the legendary Vern Buerg called 
List 7.6B makes a good shell for the Walnut Creek (and other) CD-ROMs.

With it, you can quickly go through the directories and subdirectories
on the disc, copy files, view archives and more.  You can even perform
searches of the entire disc using the master index files in the root
directory.

To unzip files, use the 'C' command in List to copy them to you hard
disk or RAM disk, then go to the root directory of SIMTEL 20 and use
the 'I' (or invoke) command to run the PKUNZIP program with the
following commands:

PKUNZIP E:*.zip E:

(Assuming E: is the disk you are using.)

You can do this pretty fast from within List.

The PKUNPAK file does the same for ARC files and is in SIMTEL's root
directory. 

I wrote a batch file which I run from my hard disk that automatically
looks for ZIP and ARC files on my RAM Disk and automatically
decompresses them.  I use this when I am doing a lot of files of
different types. 

Hope this helps!

-- 
aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"
From: iidan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel Rogers)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Playing CD's Through Drive
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:58:33 GMT
Reply-To: iidan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel Rogers)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: iidan@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu

I recently acquired a Toshiba 3301b CD-ROM drive and was wondering if anyone
has or knows where to get software that will allow it to play regular CD's
through the headphone jack. Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
=====================================================
Daniel Rogers                iidan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin
=====================================================
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: tech@CCSG.TAU.AC.IL (ONYX tech personnel)
Subject: sound blaster pro Cdrom
Reply-To: ONYX tech personnel <tech@CCSG.TAU.AC.IL>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:23:52 GMT

Hi!
As i'm new to the list please don't flame me if this is an FAQ.

I'm have a sound blaster pro card and i would like to add a CD rom the PC.
I wounder if i can add a scsi cdrom (with a card for it), or must i use the
Cdrom interface on the SBPRO.
 I think about it couse i realy don't know a thing about the interface of it
and the drive is not cheap as scsi drivers are.

Any reply will be appr.

 Yossi Goltz
 Israel.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: maryelen@hfx001.nstn.ns.ca (Mary Ellen )
Subject: Re: CD Encyclopedias
Organization: Industry Science & Technology Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:47:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.135024.7450@shearson.com> mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston) writes:


>I'm aware of Comptons Encyclopedia but that's it. What others are out there?
>Would anyone who has seen the Comptons care to offer a short overview of
>the quality of this disc? Is it worth the ~ $275 I've seen it advertised for?

>MJ
>--
>Michael R. Johnston/System Administrator                mjohnsto@shearson.com  
>  =-=-=  The official .signature of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. =-=-=

I heard the librarian at my high school talking about Compton's - which we 
just got about half-way through last year (91-92). She said that it was 
pretty neat as a multimedia thing, but as an encyclopedia it left a lot to 
be desired (eg. she would play with it, but to look up anything serious she 
would use the Britannica or something else).

Mary Ellen Foster
MARYELEN @ hfx001.ns.istc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston)
Subject: Re: Groliers Encyclopedia source: $19-$77
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:16:23 GMT

In article <714238191.F00001@csource.oz.au> Greg.Phillips@f503.n635.z3.fidonet.org (Greg Phillips) writes:
    -=> Quoting Mike Johnston to All <=-

    MJ> I've been inundated with requests for their phone number. It is (800)
    MJ> 776-5865. 
   Do you have a non 800 number so I can call them or preferably FAX from 
   Australia



Yes, of course. For our friends outside the United States:

	ERM/Electronic Liquidators
	37 Washington Street
	Melrose, Massachusetts 02176
	(617) 662-9363 
	(617) 665-4856 (Fax)
	Open 9:30am to 4:30pm Eastern Standard Time

I've purchased the Groliers (Software Toolworks) Multimedia DOS version
and will be doing a review soon. In short, I'm happy with the encyclopedia,
though I would be happier with a True Windows Multimedia version. I think I
received a fair value for my money and it's certainly a nice reference to have
online.

MJ
	
--
Michael R. Johnston/System Administrator                mjohnsto@shearson.com  
  =-=-=  The official .signature of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. =-=-=

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: rice@groupw.rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice)
Subject: Another view of CD-ROM encyclopedias
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 15:50:11 GMT
Reply-To: rice@dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice)
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom

Am I the only person out there who is frustrated by all the
multimedia silliness which the issuers of CD-ROM encyclopedias
seem so enamored of?  Why isn't there a CD-ROM encyclopedia 
that contains just the damn text, with graphics used only
for pictures where they appear in the printed version?  So 
I can search the text for words in articles?  So I can free
up several feet of shelf space?  

I just recently called up the Britannica to ask them if
they had plans to issue a CD-ROM version, and the person
I spoke with answered "Not now, but in the future" in a tone
of voice that suggested that they got that question a lot.
That would be a heartening sign if one could be sure that
they didn't plan to throw in lots of digitized sound and 
inane animations (and to discard 25% of the entries in 
the text version).  No further information was available 
from EB.

My apologies if I've offended anyone who likes the sort
of bells and whistles I'm objecting to; I guess you and I
want to use our CD-ROMs for different purposes.  The reason
for this rant is my perception that my intended purpose is 
getting short shrift.

-- 
Brian Rice   rice@dg-rtp.dg.com   +1 919 248-6328
DG/UX Software Quality Assurance
Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, N.C.    
"Bugs outside, wackos inside--what's the difference?!" --Tula, age 4
From: bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Cabling CD-ROM to Sound Blaster
Date: 15 Aug 92 13:57:19 GMT
Organization: CCS Enterprises, Inc. - Easton, MD

We have a client who has a CD-rom player in their computer and then
purchased a Sound Blaster card.  Apparently if you buy a CD-ROM (Specific
model) from Sound Blaster then it is easy to connect the audio from the
CD-ROM into the Sound Blaster, but no provision is provided for connecting
any other CD-ROM units into the Sound Blaster.

Does anyone have any experience with this?  What sort of cabling is
required?  Is there any easy answers?  (Short of selling their CD-ROM and
getting the proprietary CD-ROM from Sound Blaster).

Thanks for any comments or assistance.

-- 
>.. Bob Willey, CDP          ..  |  ..  uunet!consult!bob  bob@ccs.com   ..<
>.. CCS Enterprises, Inc.    ..  |  ..   Office: (410) 820-4670          ..<
>.. P.O. Drawer 1690         ..  |  ..      FAX: (410) 476-5261          ..<
>.. Easton, Maryland 21601 ......|......... BBS: (410) 476-5098 ...........<
From: nat@owlnet.rice.edu (Nathaniel W Guyton)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Cabling CD-ROM to Sound Blaster
Date: 15 Aug 92 22:34:40 GMT
Organization: Rice University

In article <1186@consult.UUCP> bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP) writes:
>We have a client who has a CD-rom player in their computer and then
>purchased a Sound Blaster card.  Apparently if you buy a CD-ROM (Specific
>model) from Sound Blaster then it is easy to connect the audio from the
>CD-ROM into the Sound Blaster, but no provision is provided for connecting
>any other CD-ROM units into the Sound Blaster.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with this?  What sort of cabling is
>required?  Is there any easy answers?  (Short of selling their CD-ROM and
>getting the proprietary CD-ROM from Sound Blaster).
>
>Thanks for any comments or assistance.

First off, you need the Sound Blaster PRO for their CD rom/SBPro connection.
The Soound Blaster won't get you any farther than the old adlib card when it
comes to running a CD rom player.  Furthermore, the point of the connection
is that the SBPro serves as the CD rom interface card.  If you already have
the interface card for your specific player, you don't need this.  You were
right about the specific model CD rom player for the SBPro, too.  Any other
player will not work with the proprietary interface.  Sorry.

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From: marston@coos.dartmouth.edu (David Marston)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: list of CDROM titles
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:58:42 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <1992Aug13.220653.27394@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
dchan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Chan) writes:
>Hi, I am new to the world of CD-ROM. Would anybody kindly
>tell me where or which company can I get a complete list
>of all CD-ROM that are on the market right now.
>
Meckler Corporation (11 Ferry Lane West, Westport, CT 06880) has a book
or CD-ROM of "CD-ROMs in Print 1992" and several books about the CD-ROM
market and technology. Cost for "CD-ROMs in Print 1992" for US buyers
is $65.00 for the book or $95.00 for the CD-ROM.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Meckler. I just picked up their
brochure.
.................David Marston          uunet!dartvax!coos!marston
                                        marston@coos.dartmouth.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: pd@nwavbbs.demon.co.uk (Peter Duffield)
Subject: Toshiba XM-2100A info (or address) needed 
Distribution: world
Organization: .
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:08:35 +0000


In article <1992Aug16.135311.25389@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> grover@emunix.emich.edu writes:

>
>
>I have an old  Toshiba XM-2100A CD-ROM drive, and I need the
>address of Toshiba (in the USA) so I can ask them some questions
>about it.  Thanks.
>-- 

Try the following.......    Toshiba America, Inc.
                            9775 Toldeo Way
                            Irvine, CA 92718

                            Tel: (714) 455-2000

Peter
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