The whole point of putting PTGJ on a CD ROM is the availability of the information in a quick, easy, and complete (what, 40 years worth?) fashion. Copying the entire CD to floppies would not be common, but individual articles could easily be transfered. Copying the entire CD to a hard disk (if you have a CD ROM, you've got a hard disk) is a matter of a few minutes wait. One of the main reasons to have a CD ROM is that MS Office installs in an hour and a half by floppy, and 10 minutes by CD ROM. I don't think royalties on copyrights are a big problem. The PTG wouldn't be killed by losing out an a few subscriptions to the journal it probably wouldn't get anyway. THE question is: Do we want every scrap of technical info we have on a medium where it can be shared with the entire world? Like all things in life, there is a good side and a bad side. Good: we get the info readily available. Bad: someone will probably get a hold of _some_ information and ruin a (potentialy) good piano. Knowing the nature of PTG progress, we aren't ready to do anything about it for a while, and besides, I don't think Steve Brady's wife wants him to spend all that time retyping those old articles. {BTW, thanks to Steve and his wife for the time, effort, and good results on the journal} Dave Stocker, RPT firtree@aol.com Tumwater, WA In a message dated 96-11-17 17:14:12 EST, you write: << A CDRoom holds 650 megabites of data--not so easy to copy as it would take 452 diskettes. At 12:43 PM 11/16/96 -0500, you wrote: > >Regarding proposition to put PRG Journal on CD-ROM: >On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Don Rose wrote: > >>Not so easy to copy if it were on CDROM(s) > >Don, > >>
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