** Reply to message from Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 07 May 2008 22:35:15 -0700
> Because around 93/94 CD burners were expensive. Thousands IIRC. If there > were commercially burned CD's available I was not aware of them. They > would have been out of date quickly anyway. Plus you would have to mail > a check or call up with credit card or something since this was pre-WWW > being popular or used at all for sales. Much easier to use our fast > university net connections to download to floppies. ah, you hung out at the university while I hung out at the computer shows in SD and Pamona. You relied on network access to stuff while I paid for media and therefore could get a "cheap" $300 CDROM reader. Once a month trips to the Pamona Fairplex was a hardware jukies dream IMO. Doug -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
