Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
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Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
Oh come on! It only took me 6 hrs to get the site over my 28.8 modem!
Then subscribe to "filenews-binaries- and you won't miss new files!
>That's not really true...
>cover art isn't important, and if i buy disks 10 each for my burner they're
>only $1.70 a piece (this is of course, for the cheap verbatum disks)...now
>you figure a commericial place could do it for half that...$.85 each...that
>seems like a pretty good deal to me...and as for unsold cd's...make it like
>a subscription thing...if you sign up, they bill it to a cc# and send you
>the disk, plain and simple.
>
>-- Jon Olson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Hill <gregh@xmission.com>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 5:14 PM
>Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: TIcalc/TIPhiles
>
>
>>
>>> It also would be interesting if ticalc would create a yearly or
>>> quarterly or maybe even a monthly CD-ROM containing every file and the
>>> entire page! It would DEFINITELY save on download and search time!!! It
>>> would be nice to not have to go online for every little update.
>>
>>This would probably be more expense than it's worth. To have 500 CDs
>>comercially produced will cost something like $2000. That divides to $4
>>each, but whoever made them would also need to take time to do cover art,
>>distribution costs, have a margin to cover unsold CDs, etc. Total cost per
>>disc would be $10 or more. I suppose there are people who would buy the
>>disc, but I would download the whole site on my x2 modem first. That way,
>>I don't have to wait for the disc to come, and it only takes all night to
>>transfer that much. BulletProof FTP. :)
>>
>>
>>--
>>Greg Hill
>>greg-hill@bigfoot.com
>>www.comports.com/link
>>
>>
>>
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