[HBR] OT: QST on CD-ROM from ARRL

[Dan Merz]

Hi,  I have some of the early QST cd's,  1920's and earlier,  and they open
with  MS office viewer using XP on my machine (probably the default viewer
since I have MS Office on my machine).  I think they are tif files.  On my
Fedora Core linux machine,  they show up as tif files and when I went to
view one of the pages,  I'm asked to install GIMP,  which I think I have on
the installation disks but I haven't installed it to date.  I am reasonably
sure this will work since a tif file is pretty standard stuff.  Hope this
helps.  The quality of the files for printout is pretty good and being able
to see all the ads is pretty interesting and informative.  You can spend
lots of time perusing some of this old stuff. Out of curiousity,  I just
followed the menu for installing GIMP,  which was pretty trivial since I
think it was just configuring the files,  and viewing the pages now works
more or less as for XP,  with a folder showing thumbnails of each page of
the month being viewed, etc.  And the file opens in GIMP.  Best regards,
Dan.   

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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:26 PM
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Subject: [HBR] OT: QST on CD-ROM from ARRL

This is sort-of on topic because I'm mostly interested in 50's/60's era
QST's that would also have HBR-era projects in them, so I'm asking
here:

Has anyone bought the 5-years-of-QST-on-CD-ROM sets from the ARRL? Is there
any way of viewing it on Linux? Any way of printing schematics etc. from the
articles?

I'm tempted to be buy several of the sets, at which point I guess I could
buy a cheap low-end Windows-based CD just for reading them.  I'd probably
end up being interested in 40 years or so of 'em (1940 through 1980 roughly)
at which point the PC would be cheaper than the CD's...

Are the schematics, pictures, and ads reproduced accurately enough on the
CD-ROM's for them to be usable?

Tim.
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