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- ** From comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives Wed Mar 18 09:56:47 1992
- ** From: info@cdrom.com (Robert A. Bruce)
- ** Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
- ** Subject: CICA Windows Archive on CDROM for $25
- ** Date: 18 Mar 1992 09:23:13 GMT
- ** Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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-
- Howdy folks,
- I have put the cica.cica.indiana.edu MicroSoft Windows archive onto cdrom.
- It is made from a snapshot of the archive taken on the 7th of March, 1992.
- If you are the author of any file included in the archive at that time,
- I will send you a free disc.
-
- We are updating this disc quarterly and offer a subscription for
- $19.95 per issue.
-
- The disc conforms to the ISO-9660 standard, the most common and generic
- format, so it will work with almost any cdrom drive.
-
- Here is a list of some important files and directories on the disc:
-
- 00_index.txt A list of all the files in the archive
- bmp/ Bitmap Files (BMP)
- bmp/util/ Bitmap Utilities
- demo/ Various Windows Demo Programs
- drivers/printer Software Drivers/Printers
- drivers/video Software Drivers/Video
- fonts/ Windows Soft Fonts
- fonts/atm/ Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Fonts
- games/ Windows Games and Diversions
- icons/ Windows Icons, Icon Editors, etc.
- misc/ Miscellaneous Files (tips, etc.)
- programr/ Windows Programming
- programr/bcpp Borland C++ Windows Programs
- programr/listings Program Listings from Publications
- programr/tp Windows Turbo Pascal Programming
- programr/vbasic Windows Visual Basic Programming
- sdl/ Windows Supplemental Devlpmnt Lib
- toolbook/ Asymetrix ToolBook Applications
- util/ ++General Windows Utilities
- winword/ Word for Windows Utilities, Files
-
- The price for one disc is $24.95. Shipping and handling is $5 (per
- order, not per disc) for US/Canada, and $10 for overseas. If you
- live in California, please add 8.25% sales tax. You can send a check
- or money order to
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM
- 1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
- Walnut Creek, CA 94596
- USA
-
- Or you can order with MC/Visa. If you do not trust email with you credit
- card number, you can call me at
-
- +1 800 786-9907
- +1 510 674-0783
- +1 510 674-0821 (fax)
- info@cdrom.com
-
- I have also made other cdroms:
-
- Here is a list of the discs that are currently available on 27 July 1993:
-
- Simtel MSDOS CDROM. This disc contains about 660 MB of utilities,
- programming tools, source code, technical documentation, etc. It includes
- the entire Simtel20 MSDOS Archive. There is an index file in each
- directory, and a master index file in the top directory that describes each
- file. The current edition of this disc was made in May 1993. The next
- edition will be available in August 1993. This disc is available by
- quarterly subscription for $19.95 per issue plus appropriate shipping. The
- single issue price is $24.95.
-
- CICA Microsoft Windows CDROM. This disc contains 640 MB of
- Microsoft Windows programs. It includes hundreds of utilities, games,
- fonts, bitmaps, etc. All are written especially for Windows. It includes
- the entire CICA Windows collection from Indiana University, both zipped
- (340 MB) and unzipped (300 MB). This disc was produced in April 1993.
- This disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 plus
- appropriate shipping. The single price is $24.95.
-
- Hobbes OS/2 CDROM. This disc contains the OS/2 archives from
- ftp-os2.cdrom.com. There are over 3000 programs (650 MB). Many of the same
- programs are also included as uncompressed files ready for executation right
- off the CDROM. The files on this disc were downloaded in June 1993. This
- disc is available by quarterly subscription for $19.95 plus appropriate
- shipping. The single issue price is $24.95.
-
- Project Gutenberg CDROM. The disc contains the etexts of Project Gutenberg
- for 1991, 1992 and Jan-Jul 1993. The etexts on the disc include classic
- literature such as Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and
- Paradise Lost; Historical documents such as the Magna Carta, U.S. Declaration
- of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Inagural Addresses and many treaties;
- references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, census data, the CIA World
- Fact Book, and mathematical constants; religious documents such as the Bible,
- and the Book of Mormon. This disc is available by semi-annual subscription
- for $24.95 plus appropriate shipping. The single price is $39.95.
-
- Libris Britannia CDROM. This disc was made as a joint project with
- the Public Domain and Shareware Library of Sussex, England. It contains
- over 600 MB of up to date and very well indexed software. It is biased
- toward the technical and scientific PC user and includes extensive
- sections on electronics, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ham
- radio, and other specialist areas. PDSL acts as librarian for the UK
- C User's Group, and the programming section includes the UK CUG volumes.
- The disc comes with a 124 page manual that contains capsule descriptions
- of about 100-250 words for each item, with information on version number,
- registration fee, and hardware required. This disc was made in February
- 1993, and costs $69.95.
-
- QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM. This disc contains the March 1993 US CALLSIGN
- DATABASE (in ASCII), PC (MS-DOS) compatible search and retrieval software,
- search by callsign, name, city, zip code, several output formats including
- screen, mailing lists, etc. There are hundreds of popular ham related
- (shareware) programs and nearly 200 radio and scanner modifications. Also
- included are USENET news articles from rec.ham-radio and
- rec.radio.amateur.{misc,packet,policy} since 1989. Also provided are
- complete dumps of several internet ham radio archives, Canadian and US CLUB
- callsigns, FCC Rules and Regulations (Part 97), DX lists, DXCC info, BBS
- lists, UNIX callsign database/server 'C' source code, SIMTEL20 Ham Radio
- Archive files, and vast amounts of useful reading information for the
- beginning to the advanced ham enthusiast. This disc was made in March
- 1993. The price is $24.95.
-
- Aminet Amiga CDROM. This disc contains the Aminet Amiga Archive, the AB20
- Amiga archive, and comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga. There is a
- total of 650 megabytes of Amiga software. This disc was made in June 1993.
- The disc Does work with the CDTV and is available by subscription for
- $19.95 per quarter. The price is $24.95.
-
- Info-Mac CDROM. Over 10000 programs from Stanford University's SUMEX
- Archive, including desk accessories, games, virus-detection programs and
- commercial demos. It is also jam-packed with graphics, sounds and
- Hypercard stacks. For the more technically inclined, there are source code
- samples and entire program listings as well as technical documentation and
- discussions. The programs on this CDROM are from Stanford University's
- Sumex-Aim Info-Mac Archive, one of the most complete and up-to-date
- collections of Macintosh software. This disc is in HFS Mac format. It was
- updated in April 1993. The price is $39.95.
-
- Desktop Bookshop CDROM. This disc contains several thousand works of
- classic literature, historical documents, and technical information. The
- complete works of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Virgil, Dante and Milton are on the
- disc, along with books by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Herman
- Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. The text of many treaties and international
- agreements, Supreme Court decisions, the 1991 CIA World Fact Book,
- dictionaries, thesauruses, and word lists. There is a large collection of
- technical documents, including all the internet RFCs. All the files are
- plain text ASCII, so this disc can be used on almost any system. The price
- is $39.95. [This disc is currently out of production. We hope to begin
- shipping again toward the end of July, 1993.]
-
- C Users' Group Library CDROM. C source code from the C Users' Group. Most
- code is for MSDOS, early volumes are CP/M, later UNIX. Includes source
- code for editors, disassemblers, compilers, interpreters, communications,
- bbs', games, tutorials, libraries, etc. Also all source code listings from
- the C Users' Journal. Made in October 1992, the price is $49.95.
-
- Source Code CDROM. This disc contains the Usenet source archives, the
- Simtel20 Unix-C Archive, and a large collection of MSDOS source code. There
- is a total of about 600 MB of source code. It is mostly C, but also
- has some Pascal, Lisp, C++, Modula2, Fortran, Assembly, etc. This disc was
- made in March 1992. The price is $39.95.
-
- X11R5 and GNU CDROM. This disc contains all the X11R5 Window System sources,
- including all the contributed software, all the GNU source code, and sparc
- binaries and libraries for the Gnu programs and the X11R5 server and clients.
- The X11R5 sources are at patch level seventeen. This disc is in Rock Ridge
- format, so full unix pathnames are visible on systems that support the
- RR extensions. This CDROM was made in December 1992. The price is $39.95.
-
- Nova CDROM. 636 MB. of NeXT treasures await you on this CD. The files run
- the gamut from utilities, fonts, sounds, graphics, text files to a large
- collection of NeXTSTEP games. SoftPC applications are included. Each
- subdirectory contains an index file with the file name, version, author,
- and description. The entire disc is also indexed for use with Digital
- Librarian. The disc is ISO-9660 and also includes the Rock Ridge
- extensions so you can see long file names. January 1993; $39.95.
-
- Linux Operating System CDROM. This disc contains the Beta release of
- Linux, a Unix-Like operating system. It contains a complete system, ready
- to run, including the kernel, all the GNU utilities, and the X11R5 window
- system. All the source code for the Linux kernel is included. This CDROM
- was made by Adam Richter of Yggdrasil Computing. The production release
- will be available in July (?). The price for the Beta Release is $60. The
- price for both the Beta and the production release is $99.
-
- Sprite CDROM. This disc contains the source code and documentation for the
- Sprite Network Operating System. Sprite was a research operating system
- developed at the University of California, Berkeley. All the reseach
- papers from the Sprite project are also included on the disc. This
- software on this disc is primarily intended for research purposes, and is
- not really intended to be used as a production system. Boot images are
- provided for Sun SparcStations and DECStations. The cost is $24.95.
-
- Ada CDROM. 560+ MB of documentation, information, and source code.
- With more than 5000 files, this disc is an indispensible resource for any
- Ada programmer. Imagine the convienience of refering to the disc for all
- the Ada language reference manuals, a complete set of Ada language issue
- comments, PC and Mac Ada/ED compilers, benchmarks, validation suites,
- courseware, Ada programming tools, and prodigious amounts of source code.
- Made in June 1993, the disc costs $39.95.
-
- Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM. This disc contains the Garbo archive from Vaasa
- University in Finland. It contains almost 400 MB of software. About
- 250 MB is for MSDOS, and about 150 MB is for Macintoshes. The price is
- $24.95.
-
- The CICA MS Windows, Simtel MSDOS, Aminet, and Hobbes OS/2 discs are
- available by subscription. We update these discs quarterly. When we have
- a new version we ship them to our subscribers. We bill your credit card
- when we ship. The cost is only $19.95 per issue. The standard shipping
- charge applies.
-
- All of these discs, except the Info-Mac Disc, are in ISO-9660 format, so they
- are readable on almost any system. No special software is required.
-
- Shipping and handling is $5 (per order, not per disc) for US/Canada,
- and $10 for airmail overseas. If you live in California, please add
- sales tax.
-
- You may order via email. Our email address is
- orders@cdrom.com
-
- You can send a check or money order to
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM
- 1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
- Walnut Creek, CA 94596
- USA
-
- Or you can order by MasterCard, Visa or American Express. If you do not
- trust email with your credit card number, you can call me at
-
- +1 800 786-9907
- +1 510 674-0783
- +1 510 674-0821 (FAX)
-
-
- There will be other discs available soon.
-
- * * * CDROM Caddies are available for $4.95 each. * * *
-
- Plastic jewel boxes are 10/$5.
-
- We continue to seek partners in CDROM production. If you have a good
- idea for a disc and want to work with us, give us a call.
-
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- Here are some CD-ROMs that we got through product swaps. These discs will
- only be available for a limited time.
-
- Cookbook Heaven $59.95 dos
- Clipart Heaven $59.95 dos
- SoundWav $59.95 dos
- Shareware Studio, Volume 1 $29.95 dos
- Shareware Studio, Volume 2 $39.95 dos
- Graphics 1, Knowledge Media $24.95 dos/unix/amiga
- Audio 1, Knowledge Media $24.95 dos/unix/amiga
- Font Master Library $39.95 dos/unix/amiga
- Internet Connection $39.95 dos/unix/amiga
- Phoenix Shareware CD $39.95 dos
- The Unix CDROM, InfoMagic $59.95 dos/unix/amiga
- The Internet CDROM, InfoMagic $59.95 dos/unix/amiga
- The Usenet Archive, InfoMagic $59.95 dos/unix/amiga
- Educational Gameland $39.95 dos
- Wiz-Pak 6-Pak CDROM $24.95 dos
- PC-Sig Home/Business Collection $39.95 dos
- Apple Developer CD Series, vII $39.95 mac
-
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- This catalog is dated 27 July 1993. The most current version of this
- catalog is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cdrom/catalog,
- or you can request it by sending email to info@cdrom.com.
-
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