>On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Martin Roberts wrote:
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>}Does anyone know of a place to download StarOffice, apart from
>}ftp.stardivision.com? The official site is very slow, and 50 megs takes
>}a long, long time!
>
>This seems like a commercial opportunity: Sell the distribution on a Zip
>disk. However: Media cost is not trivial, nor is the likelihood that
>some potential customers don't have Zip drives. (Are there any
>small-diameter CD-ROMs? There were some for music, maybe about 3"
>diameter. My early Radio Shack CD player (audio only) played them fine.)
>
>|* Nicholas Bodley *|* Electronic Technician {*} Autodidact & Polymath
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btw, this has nothing to do with the DL. There _are_ 'little' CDROMS,
they're about 2.5-3.0" (not sure exactly) they fit in the smaller circular
indentation in almost all modern CD drives. they hold about 150MBs...
They're used for audio AND data disks... thanks good luck.
reds
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