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QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate While I would love this as much as the next guy, much of MR exists previous to the advent of desktop publishing. This means very labor-intensive scanning and indexing work to get anything that would be searchable. ... Dream on ... but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Dan
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate True enough ... but they did have computers when Dragon started so while not pasted up electronically, they probably have all the text in electronic form.
QUOTE: Kalmbach would probably sell a few thousand copies. Dragon could even have been done by some fans on the cheap, since there's probably less than 10 years worth of magazines that would need to be done this way.
QUOTE: Originally posted by CARRfan exPalaceDog, I don't agree. The beauty of digital is that the Data itself doesn't age one bit. Sure, the medium might. So you replace the medium. I backup my Data on my business computer all the time. I don't care if a recordable DVD or CD only lasts a month - I've already re-backed up by then. As for the 5-1/4 floppy drive - I could care less that it's gone. Any data I used to have on a 5-1/4 drive that I still need is now being happily backed up onto DVD's. No big deal. In 10 years, I'm sure it will be backed up onto a chip of some sort.
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QUOTE: Belonging to some photography clubs, the other members and I often lament the probability that 50 years hence we are going to find that very little layperson image records exist from the first half of the 21st century.
QUOTE: I'd hate to see all those wonderful personal libraries of MRs dumped for a CD with a very limited usability life.