You mean "they" will throw away all those billions of books?
You must be kidding. And in 50 years the CDs will be nothing but
rotten plastic that nobody can read any more.
I sure prefer the ease of reading something on paper, having two
full pages in view all the time and not just a few lines on the
screen. And yes, I am an ARRL member so QST is for me too.
Sorry for this non RTTY posting.
73 de Goetz
dj3iw@t-online.de
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay" <ws7i@ewarg.org>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:28 AM
Subject: RE: [RTTY] RTTY Growth
> At 10:44 AM 2/20/04 -0600, Peter Laws wrote:
> >Then there's the issue of history: I can look up your scores from the
> >1950s in the library. Your grandkids won't be able to look up my scores
> >fifty years from now.
>
> In fifty years there certainly will not be any library's. Any that there
> are certainly won't have QST's in binders anymore. So you will look them
> up on some sort of electronic media in any case in 50 years.
>
> Much easier to store a CD collection. e.g. http://www.rjcdroms.com I
> tossed all of my RTTY Journals and replaced it with the CD collection.
>
> Same with my NCJ's. It will be the same with QST's and much easier with
> web based articles and writeups IMHO. In fact that's why I got Hal Blegen,
> WA7EGA, to write about the history of the ARRL RTTY Roundup a year or two
> ago. Now its saved and can be read by anyone in years to come.
>
> Sort of like I saw on here in the last couple of day's something about CQ's
> rules for the WPX. Much easier with the web and with Don's fine site
> http://www.rttycontesting.com
>
> I don't use a Model 28 anymore either.....and don't miss it much, tho I did
> just finish making a ST-5 from an original kit.
>
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