[Elecraft] Pretty-printed manuals...

[Fred Jensen]

Kind of mean-spirited, no?  I have a number of files and documents 
stored on 5 1/4" 360 KB floppies [remember those], including my master's 
thesis.  They were put there by me, mainly using an MS-DOS very early 
forerunner to MS Office called "Enable" running on a 10 MHz AT&T desktop 
built by Olivetti, with a green screen.   I don't know where I could 
find a 5 1/4" drive now, I don't know where I can find a copy of that 
version of Enable [it stored stuff in some form of compressed binary 
because 4GB USB sticks hadn't been invented then [OK, USB hadn't been 
invented either] and it had to work within what today we would consider 
laughable storage limits, and I suspect at least some of the diskettes 
are no longer readable.

Fortunately, I have printed copies of them, especially the thesis I 
worked so hard on, and they are as readable as the day I printed them. 
Does that make me a Luddite?

73,

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA

On 8/21/2011 7:42 AM, John Ragle wrote:

> Why is it that a supposedly
> technologically-adept hobby like ham radio contains such a larger than
> average Luddite constituency?