Excerpted from message dated 11-13-96, Thomas Seeling to Murray Lesser:

 ML>     DevCon is a CD-ROM subscription service.  List price is $199/year,
 ML> which includes at least four volumes.
  >It includes exactly four volumes, but not necessarily four
  >deliveries in one year. This year showed only three issues, if you
  >count #9SE separate.  But there was also a "special edition"

Hello Thomas--

    You are more observant than I am.  I just noticed that there were
four volumes in the US edition dated 1994 only if we count #5SE that
included red Warp 3 (volumes 3, 4, 5, and 5S); four in 1995 (volumes 6,
7, 8, and 9); and three (thus far) dated 1996 (volumes 9SE, which moved
several of the tools in volume 9 from prerelease to GA code, along with
volumes 10 and 11), but not counting the "extra" CD-ROMS for Warp 4
limited edition and the device drivers that were distributed with 11.
Now that you mention it, I noticed the back of the "table of contents"
now says that a subscription lasts for "four volumes," rather
than "one
year" even though the US edition of the Aug-Sept issued of the IBM
Software Direct catalog still advertises it as a one-year subscription.
However, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see another volume dated
before 1996 is is over.

    In any case, I still consider a subscription to DevCon to be the
best bargain available for OS/2 programmers, even those of us who
program only for our own amazement.

 ML>   Currently, each volume includes five CDs pertaining to OS/2 (plus
 ML> one for AIX)
  >Currently, #11 was the first one with five OS/2 CDs. 
  >Obviously it was your first one. #9 and #10 had four CDs for OS/2,
  >plus two LAN DevCon.

    I have been a subscriber since volume 2.  I believe that the extra
material formerly on the two LAN discs has been folded into the rest of
the material that is now included on the five OS/2 discs.  I suppose
this is in keeping with the fact that there is only one "connect"
current version of OS/2 these days.

    Regards,

          --Murray

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