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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (13249)	5/9/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Mark Palmberg	Read Replies (2) of 213177

I just bought a modem - the software came on a floppy. Why don't consumers insist that software producers release their products on the more reliable, higher-capacity, more durable CD's anyway? The investment in a CD burner would easily be recouped by not having to replace failed or lost diskettes? Better yet, the last modem I installed had an on-line registration feature, whereby the modem dialed a pre-installed toll-free number and registered my product. Send out a modem, either in Mac or Windows config, that'll dial up the company's home page and DOWNLOAD the friggin' software needed to run the hardware. The small program that does the dialing could then be removed (it would come with a user key or something for ID and registration purposes) after the software kit was downloaded to the hard drive. How hard can this be? Then you have NO CD's and NO diskettes; save a copy of the downloaded software on a Zip disk or whatever if you want a backup. Cool. Mark

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