[Elecraft] Pretty-printed manuals...[End of Thread]

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Time to end this thread.

73, Eric
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Eric

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On Aug 21, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> 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?
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