Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!rkl
From: rkl@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Can't get 1.3 on DISK in the UK..HELP !!!
Message-ID: <5798@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Dec 88 11:06:15 GMT
Lines: 44
Organisation: Computer Science CSMVAX, Liverpool University

This may be a touchy subject, but here goes...

Here in the UK, trying to get Kickstart 1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on DISK (the
new A500s here have Kickstart 1.3 on ROM) is like trying to get blood out
of a stone (you may have deduced that I have A1000).

Question 1 : Can the above 1.3 disks be freely distributed ?

IF Question 1 = TRUE THEN

   Question 2 : Are the European and US Kickstarts the same ?

   IF Question 2 = TRUE THEN
     
      Question 3 : Can some kind American or European soul please post them ?

   ELSE Question 3 : Can some kind European soul please post them ?

   ENDIF

ENDIF

If Question 3 = TRUE THEN

   I imagine some clever work will have to done. Someone will have to write
   a program to take an file split across two floppies and write the image
   of the file onto tracks 0-79 of a blank formatted disk (this would work
   for the Kickstart or the Workbench). The two (400K each) files would,
   of course, be Arc'd or Zoo'd and uuencoded when they are posted to the net.

ENDIF

All of the above is probably highly illegal, since the disks are the
copyright of Commodore, but most Commodore dealers in the UK don't even
know that 1.3 exists on disk !!!!

Richard K. Lloyd,       **** This is a MicroVAX II running VAX/VMS V4.7 ****
Computer Science Dept., * JANET     : RKL@UK.AC.LIV.CS.MVA or              *
Liverpool University,   *             RKL@000010500211.FTP.MAIL            *
Merseyside, England,    * Internet  : RKL%mva.cs.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu *
Great Britain.          ****************************************************

"What's the world's fastest microcomputer ? A Mac II at 5000 pounds ?
A 25Mhz Compaq 386 at 5500 pounds ? No, it's an Archimedes at 800 pounds !"