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From: RTPIANO@ARCRIBA.BITNET
Subject: informatio basics please
Reply-To: RTPIANO@ARCRIBA.bitnet
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:18:20 GMT

Dear Members

I am working in Buenos Aires in a non-profit organization called CLACSO,
Latin American Council opf the Social Sciences, which fosters the
development of the social sciences in Latin America. Our membership is
made up of 120 member centers located in 19 different countries. Each
center produces a considerable amount of technical and general literature
per year. We think that the time is ripe for us to produce a yearly CD Rom
with most of this production.

Unfortunately we are far away here from having precise information and the
whole process of CD-Rom production. For starters we would need some
reference material as:

a) vendors, in-house facilities, costs and general information on CD-rom
production
b) experience assessment of related or similar products
c) possible meetings, seminars or international conferences where to witness
state of the art developments, comparative software, etc
d) three or four basis books and technical reports to gather in the shortest of
times the most of information as far as to the mastering of the essentials of
th

By the way is anybody aware of the 6th CD-Rom Conference which will take
place in Boston at the end of this month? We encourage specific comments
on this meeting since I plan to attend it. Is it representative, hanging around
will I be able to grasp what is going on in the industry, will the products and
exhibits shown thereof be of significance for our non-profit profile? etc

Is there any other list orn lkitserver of more general concermn where I
could address this queries

Thanks a lot

Alejandro Piscitelli
CLACSO, Buenos Aires
From: jay@ssd.kodak.com (Jay Jungalwala)
Subject: Re: PhotoCD formats
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:32:41 GMT

In article <920826221921_75300.1324_CHE47-1@CompuServe.COM> Nick Arnett <75300.1324@COMPUSERVE.COM> writes:
>Attn: CDROM-L
>                       Subject:
>Time:2:00 PM
>  OFFICE MEMO          PhotoCD formats
>Date:8/26/92
>This is going to shut off big parts of the market, if it's true.  For
>example, imagine that you have a collection of color slides Q many
>businesses have huge libraries that they'd like to manage on
>computer, rather than as physical slides.  To get them into the
>PhotoCD format, they'll have to re-shoot them on film and take it to
>a PhotoCD processor or find a PhotoCD processor who'll do it for
>them.  There seems to be no option for doing it yourself.
>
>Nick Arnett
>Multimedia Computing Corp.
>Santa Clara, CA 95051
>Chief Sysop, Multimedia Forums on CompuServe


Uhh.. no!  You can also get all slide film transfered also.  Either
preprocessed or postprocessed (in cardboard holder).

Personally I think this argument is a bit silly.  

Jay

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Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Re: GIFs Galore CD-ROM (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 22:29:14 GMT


In a previous article, markc@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Mark Cervarich) says:

>Very good review, glad to see it posted....but what is the price???
>
>mark
>
>

$24.95 + $5 S/H

-- 
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TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
Organization: CS
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:37:14 GMT



When am I going to be able to buy a book, say the latest scifi novel on CD?

I hate watching my books get trashed from handling, and other problems, it'd
be cool to have lots of artwork, or even CD's of "the Complete Stainless
Steel Rat", or somesuch...

Anybody have some futuristic guesses as to when this kind of thing might
happen?
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
From: reginald.hirsch@yob.sccsi.com (Reginald Hirsch) 
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: US CODE ON CD ROM
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:31:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ye Olde Bailey BBS - Houston, TX - 713-520-1569
Reply-To: reginald.hirsch@yob.sccsi.com (Reginald Hirsch) 

 TThe U.S. Government Printing Office has announced that the U.S.
Code will be available on CD ROM for $30.00 .If any one has more
information a post would be appreciated.Thanks
                                                                              
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: cd-rom@WINONA.MWC.COM ("Michael L. Kaufman")
Subject: Re:
Reply-To: "Michael L. Kaufman" <cd-rom@WINONA.MWC.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:01:36 GMT

GILSN2%IRMFAO01.bitnet@uccvma.ucop.edu writes:
>  Does anyone out there know of a CD-ROM with movie data: names of films,
>cast, director/producer, summary of plot, rating and possibly reviews.

I have heard that Microsoft is going to come out with something like this.

Michael
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: gloster@INFERENCE.COM ("Vance M. Gloster")
Subject: Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM
Reply-To: "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:47:46 GMT

  Has anyone heard of a Matsushita-Kotobuki CD-ROM drive? I believe the
  company is connected to Panasonic, so this could be one of Panasonics
  drives. I don't have a model number with it, but I was wondering if the
  drive would be compatible with everything I'm likely to use it for (under
  MS-DOS, Linux (386 Unix), and maybe AmigaDOS).

Matsushita (the i is silent) is a very large company in Japan.  Their
products are marketed under the 'Panasonic' and 'Quasar' brand names
in the US, and under the 'National' brand name in the Far East.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: XID@IAEA1.BITNET (David White IAEA Vienna)
Subject: Kodak CD
Reply-To: David White IAEA Vienna <XID@IAEA1.bitnet>
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:59:03 GMT

I expect this is a pinhead question, but it is not so easy to call 800
numbers from Austria.

Given Corel 3.0 which can access these images, does one need a special
CD-ROM drive? Or will my unnamed builtin one (that works fine with
digital and audio under Windows 3.1) suffice? Would I need any extra
drivers?

David White
IAEA, Vienna, Austria
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Street Atlas CD-ROM 
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 03:30:23 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <1992Aug28.221346.22230@e2big.mko.dec.com> gettys@regent.enet.dec.com writes:

           I have it and find that it is an OK product. It does have
   mistakes,  but so do most paper maps you get. Some are obviously
   based on OLD data.  One I found local to me obviously comes from
   about 40 years ago!

Yes, right, here too.  One road they have in their CDROM (and on their paper
map) is no more than a cow path now.

   They say that they like to get reports on any errors found so that
   they can corect them.

Yes, and I wanted to know what kind of compensation they were willing
to offer for extensive error reports.  Answer: none.  So, they're not
getting my 20 or so corrections for St. Lawrence County, NY.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
Crynwr Software            Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.               315-268-1925 Voice
Potsdam, NY 13676          315-268-9201 FAX
From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Small Run CD's
Date: 27 Aug 1992 06:18:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: jaywalk.berkeley.edu

In article <3628@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
>
>I've been hearing news about the new CD compatible worm drives. Have any
>services spring up yet that will do quick and dirty CD mastering
>(i.e. you give them a tape and some money and they give you back 
>some CD's ). If you can purchase the CD compatible WORM drive for $6000
>and a media for $40, it would seem possible to do fairly small run CD's
>fairly soon.

I will put your data onto CD-ROM for $195 for one disc, and $95 for
each additional copy.  I will put 600 meg onto an ISO-9660 disc, and
deliver it in two days.

I can handle most tape sizes and formats, but 8mm Exabyte in tar
format is the easiest for me to work with.  I will even accept
floppies (although there is an additional handling charge).

If you are interested, send me email at rab@cdrom.com, or give me
a call at 1-800-786-9907.

	-bob

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: IRQ2=trouble ?
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 14:55:28 GMT

In <72kn1ld@lynx.unm.edu> lawson@netsun.mdc.com (Jim Lawson) writes:

>Subject: Re: IRQ2=trouble ?
>Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>>I recently installed a Sony cd-rom and am using IRQ2 for the interface
>>card. When I checked (before cd-rom install) the IRQ status on my 386
>>is shows IRQ2 as a "cascade".
>>So far, it's been working perfectly. What is "cascade" and am I going to
>>be getting in trouble later ?

>Here are the replys I've recieved:

>You shouldn't have any problems.  Just don't install something else
>as IRQ9, because that's what IRQ2 cascades to.  And make sure that
>your VGA card doesn't have a jumper set to use IRQ 2, it is a feature
>for backward-compatibility with some older games that used IRQ2 to
>blank the screen (or something like that).

The general consensus was that it doesn't hurt to assign to
IRQ=9.  Unfortunately there may be a conflict with some VGA
adapters on IRQ2 even if they're jumpered not to use it (typical
PC hardware trash).

I'm running SCO ODT 2.0 and when I first set it up with a Racal
Interlan NI-6510 ethernet card at IRQ 9 it appeared to work fine
and all was right with the world -- until I had an X-window
running on the display.  Whenever the X-window was active the
ethernet would slow to a crawl (ping response times around 40
seconds).  In fact I thought it was completely dead, but it would
finally respond.  Shifting the console to a multi-screen without
X-windows would instantly return the ethernet to normal.  It took
me quite a while to figure out what was going on, and when I
changed the NI-6510 to IRQ 12 everything worked fine.  I really
should have listened to the SCO installation instructions that
warned against using IRQ 9 for anything!

.....LOTS of similar things deleted saying it doesn't matter.

Bill
-- 
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UUCP:   ...!thebes!camco!bill   6641 East Mercer Way
             uunet!camco!bill   Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591
SPEED COSTS MONEY -- HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO?
From: deand@bcarh823.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: MSCDEX HELP PLEASE!!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:09:10 GMT
Reply-To: deand@bcarh823.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <92245.102226HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>,
HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
|>
|>In article <1227767297@trsvax>, pauls@trsvax.tandy.com says:
|>>
|>>Well, if you mean invoke it:
|>>
|>>mscdex /{drive letter}:{drive handle}
|>
|>Thers is also a small write-up in the archives under msdos/cdrom. I found
|>mine at oak.oakland.edu. But I have seen it in other mirror sites also.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 Could someone post the internet address for this site? We can't seem to
 resolve this name up here. Thanks.


      deand@bnr.ca (No shoes, no shirt, no sig)
From: blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: When am I going to see books... Real books on CD?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:10:08 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA

osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:

>When am I going to be able to buy a book, say the latest scifi novel on CD?

We're probably not all that far from this now.  Voyager has a successful
line of "Expanded Books" for the Macintosh which use a simple, elegantly
designed HyperCard stack.  They've got over 20 titles, including the
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jurassic Park, Moby Dick, William
Gibson's Neuromancer series, the Annotated Alice in Wonderland and so
forth.  Currently they are issued on floppy. 

One thing to keep in mind is that a novel, in general, isn't all that
much text when compared to the space available on a CD-ROM.  It's also
true that the CD-ROM market is small, compared to the computer market,
which is small compared to the book market.

I believe Wayzata has been selling some literature on CD-ROM for a
while.  Sherlock Holmes comes to mind...

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ap149@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Lawson, Jr.)
Subject: IRQ2=trouble ?
Reply-To: ap149@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Lawson, Jr.)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:19:19 GMT


I recently installed a Sony cd-rom and am using IRQ2 for the interface
card. When I checked (before cd-rom install) the IRQ status on my 386
is shows IRQ2 as a "cascade".

So far, it's been working perfectly. What is "cascade" and am I going to
be getting in trouble later ?

Thanks !

Jim

-- 
Jim Lawson      These are my opinions - who else would want them ;-)
                ap149@cleveland.freenet.edu
                lawson%ssdvax.decnet@mdcgwy.mdc.com
From: doorn@cs.vu.nl (Jan Bernard van Doorn)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Toshiba 3301 price
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:48:20 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam


Anybody seen a better price on a bare 3301B internal (CD Systems: $365,
Computer Shopper Aug.)?? Just curious.....

-jb
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: chinc@ecf.toronto.edu (CHIN CHIEN TING)
Subject: advise needed in buying
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:09:08 GMT


Hi guys. I have been watching this group for 3 months and now the time is 
ripe. I am going to buy a CDROM drive all for myself. At the same time, I
am going to get a stereo sound card.

I have my eyes hooked on to the SONY 535 drive (340ms, 150kb/s?) for C$400
with exchange rate and a 15% sales tax (Oh, Can-na-daaa!!), it comes down
to about US$373. Also, I plan to get the ATI Stereo F/X for C$130 (~US$120).
I picked ATI because of the price (and praying that it will be supported).
It's compatible to the Sound Blaster. It has the same capability to SBPro,
but is incompatible to it.

Does anyone have these two installed in a 386DX 25MHz with a ESDI drive?
Any comments? Horror stories? Anything about Win 3.1 talking to ATI Stereo
F/X?

I could also get the Creative Lab MM package (Panasonic drive + SBPro +
Win 3.1 + CDs) for C$725 (~US$675), is there any strong reason I should 
pick one over the other? (The SONY drive is faster, isn't it?)

-- 
CHIN, Chien Ting 
Dept of Physics
University of Toronto                                  \ /
------------------------------------------------------- * <
From: vaughn_f%nsti.dnet@NET.VANDERBILT.EDU (Faye Vaughn)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: RE: Hitachi CD-ROM
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:12:16 GMT
Reply-To: Faye Vaughn <vaughn_f%nsti.dnet@NET.VANDERBILT.EDU>
Distribution: alt
Organization: FUNET-NGW

My config.sys contains the following
lastdrive=z
files=40
buffers=25
device=c:\dos\ansi.sys
device=\dev\hitachia.sys /d:mscd001 /n:1 /p:300

the parameters following hitachia.sys were written when I did the initial
installation.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Subject: Re: SCSI Formatting (was Re: CD-Rom & Adaptec 1542b)
Organization: I/Ovations
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:17:36 GMT

In <1497@mgse.UUCP> marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:

>I have read before that you should low-level format your drives every year
>or two to rejuvenate those part of the disk that are not being constantly 
>re-written (like the address marks??)  The idea being, in part, that when 
>the drive is powered up or down, there is a surge of juice thru the heads
>and because the magnetic charge is not permenant. I (superstitiously) agree
>with that and do it on small hard drives, sometimes. I have not done it 
>on my main system recently, too much trouble backing up everything twice
>and then reinstalling.

There used to be some validity to the recommendation of reformatting,
though not for the reason you say.  When drives had only slow (>70ms)
stepper motors and no positional adjustments other than physical
alignment, the read/write head would would drift with temperature and
wear.  Reformatting would lay down the tracks under the heads again.

No modern drives are that poorly constructed, fortunately, and
reformatting is not normally required.

-- 
del AKA Erik Lindberg                             uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
                          Who is John Galt?
Xref: sparky alt.cd-rom:2886 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23132
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 09:12:17 EDT
From: <REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Mea Culpa... was Re: IRQ2=trouble ?
 <Btvvrp.DIq@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU>

Mea Culpa.
  Ignore my last post about IRQ2... I forgot just how this cascade worked.
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: GILSN2@IRMFAO01.BITNET
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: GILSN2@IRMFAO01.bitnet
Organization: FUNET-NGW
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:53:09 GMT

Hi,
  Does anyone out there know of a CD-ROM with movie data: names of films,
cast, director/producer, summary of plot, rating and possibly reviews.
  Thanks
                                            Abe
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Prime Time Freeware UNIX Coll. (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:55:56 GMT


Prime Time Freeware
UNIX(tm) Freeware Collection
Volume 1 - Number 2 July 1992
 
Reviewed by Tony Thomas
 
 
Users of other operating systems are probably a bit frustrated by the
number of shareware/freeware discs for DOS, Windows and the Macintosh
and the comparative scarcity of CD-ROMs for their platform.  Slowly, but
surely such discs are trickling out, and UNIX(tm) and **IX users will be
glad to hear such a collection exists for their operating system(s).
Prime Time Freeware has released two discs containing about 3 gigabytes
of useful freeware(!) applications complete with source code. 
 
Most of this code comes from the Free Software Foundation, UUNET, Cygnus
support and major universities.  Shell scripts are included to support
various interpretations of the ISO-9660 file conventions plus indexes to
allow you to navigate the contents of each disc.  The directories
include ai, database, datacomm, desktop, game, language, math, music,
os, gnu, usenet and window.  There are all kinds of applications on
these discs including CAD packages, mail handing systems, spreadsheets,
emacs editors and tools, LaTex, Tex, chess, programming languages,
graphics tools, X-Windows, Ghostscript and more.  DOS users will
probably recognize some of this stuff due to their gnuish DOS ports.   
 
This release comes with a comb-bound book and the discs are in plastic
sleeves bound in the book.  While not as elegant as the jewel box, this
keeps the book and the discs together and simplifies retail distribution
of the package. The book is very helpful and includes installation
instructions for many systems, plus workarounds for difficult problems,
like getting it to work with A/UX 3.0 (Apple UNIX). Hierarchical and
permuted program lists are also included in the book.
 
At $60 list (quantity discounts available), this is an excellent value
for UNIX users.  There is enough stuff on these discs to keep your Sun
(or other **IX machine) humming for quite a while.  A regular
subscription service for this bi-annual release is also available.  Even
though all of its contents are Freeware, Prime Time Freeware encourages
you to make donations to the Free Software Foundation and PTF Software
Slush fund to help pay for the cost of creating it.  (FSF donations are
tax deductible, PTF donations are not.)  Five Stars *****
 
Contact: Prime Time Freeware - 415-112 N. Mary Avenue, Suite 50
                               Sunnyvale, CA  94086
                               Phone: 1-408-738-4832
                               FAX:   1-408-738-2050
          


-- 
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"

Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price)
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: Info on Sound Galaxy CDROM card
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date:  2 Sep 92 12:21:06 GMT

greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price) writes:


>I have a Sound Galaxy Card connected to a Panasonic CDROM drive and I
>need some low level programming info to drive the device from another
>o/s. (386BSD). I need info relevent to writing a device driver. The
>DOS driver is copyright to Aztech Systems Pte Ltd. If anyone can help
>me find the info, point me in a direction, or anything, please let me
>know. The retailer I bought it from is drawing blanks in finding out
>information.

I forgot to mention the model number which is CR-522-B.

Greg
From: pjs@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Peter John Swiatkowski)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Gifs Galore again...
Date: 4 Sep 92 01:38:14 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne

In article <1992Sep3.075934.1@tesla.njit.edu> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
>I'm sorry to jump into a already finished conversation but what is the
>gifs galore cd (how many gifs are on it, etc)?
>How much, and where can I order one
> - Thanks
> - Kirk


I'm not sure if I've seen a posting to this group that quantifies the
contents of the GIFs Galore CD ROM yet. Basically this is about as full as
a CD ROM disc can get.

The GIFs Galore CD ROM disc, from Walnut Creek CDROM, contains over 6000
images divided into directories by category, totalling over 600MB of image 
data. It also has recent viewer programs for DOS, MS-Windows, Macintosh, 
Amiga, Atari-ST, NeXT, Sparc, DecStation and X11.

The disk is standard ISO9660, and a bargain at Walnut Creek's price of
$24.95. Contact Bob Bruce by email as rab@cdrom.com for more details.


Peter Swiatkowski
in AUSTRALIA
(Just a satisfied Walnut Creek customer)