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To: Mark Palmberg who wrote (13251)	5/9/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

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? I tend to agree, except that it's a bit of a waste to put a 500k program on a CD-ROM or even a 5MB one on several floppies, given that a CD-ROM can hold 650MB of data. That, and I imagine that floppies are still easier and cheaper to produce. I'm not sure at what point a CD-ROM becomes more cost effective. CD-ROMs aren't recycleable either as far as I know, although that's of little concern to most companies. I've always thought it was cool that you could send off all the old program disks you have to a recycling company, like Green Disk, or reuse them for your own purposes.