Software Dispatch

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Software Dispatch was a disk-based app store that was distributed with CD-ROM-equiped Macintosh Performa models in the mid 1990s.
The CD-ROM contained 70 "great applications" that can be unlocked with a code that could be purchased through a toll-free telephone call or a faxed order form.Revisiting Software Dispatch, 1994's Mac App Store on CD-ROM by Christopher Phin, Macworld. 2016-02-09.]
==Development==
thumb|224px|right|Introductory video from the disk
Software Dispatch was developed by the Software Solution unit of AppleSoft,Apple branches out to fight Microsoft on Intel by Tom Quinlan and Jim Hammett, InfoWorld. 1993-10-11. a division that had been formed at Apple Computer under Michael Spindler in 1993.Apple shuffle raises some enterprise mart concerns by Frederic Paul, Network World p.18-22. 1993-07-26. Participating developers in the program included:
*Adobe
*Apple Computer
*Central Point Software
*Claris
*Computer Associates
*Electronic Arts
*Farallon
*Lotus
*Symantec
A Windows version of the CD-ROM was also developed.The strangest business meeting of my career by Rob Griffiths, Robservatory. 2014-05-12.
==References==
==External links==
*Apple Software Dispatch from 1994 by Dr. Webster at Applefritter (2018-06-13)
*Revisiting Software Dispatch, 1994's Mac App Store on CD-ROM by Christopher Phin at Macworld (2016-02-09)
*Apple’s Software Dispatch (and similar pre-App Store distribution CDs) at Retro Computing (2019-10-12)
Category:Macintosh Performa System Software