[Milsurplus] History of radios

[J. Forster]

ed sharpe wrote:

> in reality the cd cost about a buck!  amazing!

True, but I find it difficult to read long texts on a PC. Also, sometimes you
have to pan pics or drawings. IMO, books are still pretty good. In 20 years,
will there even be CD readers? Can YOU read a 7 track mag tape or an 8"
floppy....  Damn, that's gonna start a new flame war.

> the way to cover  info disappearing is the mirroring of sites.

And if the site you want has not been mirrored? I can find a used book that is
80 yars old for $5 (A Radio Boys in the bthousand Islands, for example) . Who is
gonna mirror little wanted stuff for that long or that price  In the 1950's or
60's who cared about manuals for ARC-5's or No 19 sets. All that was wanted was
a surplus conversion manual (YUKKKKK).

-John

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