OT, but info needed: RAM uprade - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Dec 1998

On Dec 29, 19:49, Roger Merchberger wrote:
...
  Subject: Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade
 Once upon a midnight dreary, Jason Willgruber had spoken clearly:

 >Last time I checked on it, Netscrape Communicator was somewhere around $45
...
  in the stores,

 But *free* to download from the web. To purchase IE *all by itself* costs
 money, too. They can't print books / cd's, etc. for free. 
...
  Netscape has not *always* been free. It was turned
into free software in
 (IIRC) October or November of '97. Since then, if you got a stripped
 version, you *asked* for it (to save space) and all date-disabled versions
...
  of the software disappeared. 
It was free for educational use (including home users) since at least 1994,
when I obtained version 2.something to replace the 1.01 that was on the
machine I was using then.  IIRC, you were supposed to register it, but
there was no fee if you "signed" a declaration that you were in education.
 I remember that the download was a massive 2MB and I had to split it
across two floppies...

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York