Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM,GS,Mac
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.005138.6660@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 90 00:51:38 GMT
References: <info-apple-request@APPLE.COM> <9008101615.AA22546@apple.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <9008101615.AA22546@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes:

[detailed account of SCSI, PCT+SCSI,CD-ROM formats...]

Sorry to keep at this. I'm not making myself clear. So I'll try to rephrase 
this in PC terms.

There is a Sierra PC program, meant to run on IBM type computers only. It is
a program, not a text file,etc... . The program's name is Mixed up Mother
Goose. Now the problem is, this progam is 250megs in size-too much for
distribution on floppies, and the floppy swapping would do a person in! So
it is placed on a CD-ROM disk. It is clear that the program can't run on a GS
or a Mac because it is meant for a different cpu.

Now I have an Apple CD-ROM PLAYER. I don't have a PC. I have a GS and a Mac.
I want to run this program, so I am prepared to buy an IBM type computer for
the SOLE purpose of running Mixed up Mother Goose, which happens to be a
250meg program.

The question is: Do I have to buy another CD-ROM player, or can I use the
Apple CD-ROM player with this IBM computer bought for the purpose of running
this progam? 

Hope that clarifies the problem!

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]

