As regular posters know, I am a major "Luddite". I constantly
> question if some new technology is really worth the hype around it and
> will truly make things easier for us, on in reality, be more of a
> nuisance than the past.
> I must admit one new tech item is pretty slick. I just got some
> CD-ROMs with .PDF files of various antique telephone manuals and
> catalogs. They were very reasonably priced.
Yeah, someday maybe, you can get the address for the old phone manuals, arcade machines (sorry, no High Speed), cameras and fax machines.
The use of .PDF files (a file format used to store images from printed
> matter such as books) and the CD ROM media made it easy to copy,
> distribute, and use the old stuff. Otherwise, I'd have to purchase
> the original manuals at considerably more cost and then only I could
> view them; by mass media, many people can benefit. I'd also have a
> bunch of old paper lying around the house subject to getting torn or
> deteriorating or lost.
If you ever feel brave enough to do your own scanning, get Paperport (now up to 11) from Nuance and it creates a digital file cabinet of pdf files. It was $99 until July 1, but you still ought to find a deal on the internet.
Carl Navarro
(Now if only Adobe wouldn't keep upgrading its free reader every other
> day. I use version 5 and now they're up to 7 or 8.)
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