[Coco] Re: why you should stick with pdf

[Ward Griffiths]

On 07/13/2005 08:23 am, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> I have several magazine collections on CD-ROM now, and most of them have
> their own proprietary viewer that only runs on a limited number of
> platforms.  I think only one can be read on anything that supports HTML
> and ISO-9660.

Yup.  The MAD Magazine set that I have is very Win32 specific.  So the only 
times I can read it I have to borrow a machine from my wife, as the only MS 
stuff I have are BASIC ROMs, an occasional disk-based BASIC interpreter and 
TRS-Xenix.

> 9 track Reel to real tapes ruled as a computer standard for a longer
> time than PDF has been around.  Try getting one read now.
> I have paper tapes from high school that I do not know if I will ever be
> able to read them into a computer again.

Paper tapes are easy.  Run them through a scanner.  I recall seeing 
translation utilities around somewhere.
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