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#3D Studio R2 LOCKED?

    17-Mar-92 09:04:21
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Yost Group 76702,413
It might be nice to offer the option of the dongle *or* the CD-ROM. As for CD-ROMs being ahead of their time – the typical 3D Studio system is ahead of its time in general. The fastest processors, the fastest coprocessors, better-than-VGA, more than 8 megs of memory… a $500-700 CD-ROM drive doesn't look like much when compared to the other semi-official system requirements for 3D Studio. It's a very cheap 500 meg drive. Requiring a CD-ROM would also fuel great third-party products – object collections, texture collections, animated tutorials, etc. Autodesk could offer its own OEM drive if they think the dealer channels were worried about it. Next time they ask, keep pushing for this!