14 Sep
2005
14 Sep
'05
6:21 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I worked at Bruce and James Publishing when they
released "WordVision"
for the PC - I still have my free copy - the back of the package says
"96K of RAM required. PC-DOS 1.0 or higher required. Floppy drive
required." They felt it was necessary to tell the potential customer
that they'd need a disk drive to use software distributed on disk.
Well, of course you remember that back then disk drives were still a
somewhat expensive option, and lots of software was being distributed on
cassette back then, and it would not be obvious to the consumer whether
they were buying software on disk or cassette unless the package told
them.
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