[Coco] 67 years of Radio Shack catalogs online (John Guin)

[Andrew]

That's definitely an interesting link, but at the same time, I hate it:

1. Why flash for a catalog? And why that flash viewer? I can barely turn 
a page, and it sometimes crashes. Ugh.

2. Why not use PDF, and allow others to save them?

Number 2 is the biggie - I can understand why, but at the same time, 
there is no guarantee in this world that this particular site will be up 
forever.

I can, however, say that many things that have "leaked" to the internet 
will be there long after most of us are gone. For instance, I doubt that 
the source code to DeCSS will ever disappear, no matter how much the 
MPAA hates it.

I just fear that someday this interesting archive will disappear as 
easily as it appeared, and no one will be able to do anything about it 
(for instance, maybe the owner dies, and those left behind have no clue 
about it, or maybe the estate doesn't care, etc - look at the trouble 
over the Rainbow, for instance).

Oh well.

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona