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- From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
- Subject: Monthly CD-ROM for $10 announced
- Message-ID: <C1E8tz.1n5@techbook.com>
- Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:05:43 GMT
- Lines: 94
-
- [ This is a one-time-only product announcement. But I thought (hoped)
- that people might be interested. ]
-
- Get your programs in bulk!
-
- Get 300, 400, 500, even 600 megabytes of NEW PC programs every month!
- All the thousands of files we receive each month are compressed,
- copied onto CD-ROM and sent to you. Get the latest and greatest
- software available at the lowest possible cost --- less than an hour
- of CompuServe or long-distance!
-
- Each issue comes with a program to let you easily search by keyword,
- program name, etc. Or browse up and down the directories, looking for
- interesting programs. Each disc is readable by DOS, so you can these
- directly or as a cheap way to add files to your hard drive.
-
- Q: How can you do this?
-
- A: Besides files sent to us by the programmers and software companies,
- we call hundreds of technical support BBSs and access the huge
- archives on the Internet. We check programs for viruses, add and edit
- description files, arrange them into directories, and make the main
- description database.
-
- Q: What's on the discs?
-
- A: Almost anything you can think of! Everything from new releases of
- shareware programs to new device drivers for video cards; bit-mapped
- graphics for Windows to fonts for any printer; beautiful high-
- resolution images (no "adult") to desktop publishing programs;
- everything involving bulletin boards, from BBS software to doors,
- games, and utilities; patches and programs direct from manufacturers.
-
- At less than 4 cents a megabyte, how can you go wrong?
-
- Q: How do I use this?
-
- A: Let's say you have a clone '386 system with an Adaptec SCSI
- controller, ET4000 VGA card, Chinon CD-ROM drive, DeskJet, etc. You
- run some DOS programs and Excel, ProcommPlus, and SuperBase under
- Windows.
-
- You can search interactively each new disc for keywords like "1542B",
- "ET4000", and "SuperBase". But what you'll probably do is put the
- keywords in MYSTUFF.LST (or WORK.LST or whatever). Each time you get
- a new disc, you have the program look at your keyword file(s) and tell
- you the files that match. Adaptec releases a new driver for the 1542B?
- Someone writes a new .GIF display program especially for the ET4000
- series? There's a patch to let Windows use less memory?
-
- You get them automatically a few days after their release. No
- CompuServe charges. No long-distance phone calls. No more waiting
- forever to talk to tech support, only to hear "Oh, patch 308b fixed
- that months ago."
-
- Q: But I don't have a CD-ROM drive!
-
- A: Get one! You can buy one from dozens of companies for under $200,
- including Software Etc., DAK (800) DAK-0800, and Damark. Look for
- seek times under 400 milliseconds. Kodak PhotoCD and MultiMedia
- compatibility are good ideas, but cost more. Even if you don't get
- use it for anything else --- no encyclopedias, no games with
- incredibly detailed graphics, no huge collections of clip art --- a
- CD-ROM drive with PC GrabDisc will quickly pay for itself.
-
- PC GrabDisc makes your system faster, more reliable, and more fun!
-
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-
- For fastest service, fill out this form and fax it to (503) 248-6320,
- email it to "Orders" on 1:105/54.369 or orders@techbook.com, or make a
- voice call to (503) 223-4245.
-
- Name: Company/School:
- Address: City:
- State: Zip code:
- Daytime phone: Heard about us from:
- Visa/MasterCard #: Expires:
- Signed:
-
- Subscription options: [ ] 1 year (12 discs) $119.95
- [ ] 1 quarter (3 discs) $ 44.95
- [ ] 1 sample disc $ 19.95
-
- Each disc you receive will contain at least 300MB of programs and
- files. You may cancel at any time and get a prompt refund of your
- remaining subscription.
-
- Mail checks, purchase orders, or programs you want included on our disc
- to TECHbooks, 319 SW Washington; Suite 803; Portland, OR; 97204.
-
- [ Special offer: The advice and information in these newsgroups was
- incredibly valuable, much more so than anything we got from vendors.
- So order before 2/1/93, mention Usenet, & save $20 on an annual
- subscription (so it'd be $99.95). And <thanks> again! ]
-