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From: (Dennis P. Harris)
Subject: Re: Wuerttemberg index: end of the line for print?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:51:27 -0900
References: <G9zqwD.MFv@freenet.buffalo.edu>, <j93mat0143hu9idgi0nbc4si2jr3lpj0ve@4ax.com>, <3AAD1514.D08FCDD7@erols.com>


On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:27:32 -0800 in soc.genealogy.misc,
Singhals <> wrote:

> Only if someone else isn't using it when you want it, as is all
> too likely in libraries and other research facilities. A
> 7-volume set of books can be used by 7 people at a time; a 7-CD
> set of the same books can be used by only one person at a time.

CD drives can easily be shared. I can see the CD drives on any
of the computers in my network from any computer when I tell
Windoze to share the drives. And there a number of networked CD
"jukeboxes" available --- we had one set up for a software
development team that I worked with several years ago. It held
16 CDs.

> (And, because I'm coming down with a cold and feeling put-upon
> this morning I'll tack on gratuitously that the EUREKA! is a lot
> more relieved after spending two hours flipping pages than after
> 3 minutes at the computer. People tend to value the difficult
> achievement more than the easy.)

You ARE a Luddite, aren't you? Thanks, but I'll take the disk
version any day.

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Researching GRIFFITH (IL,PA,Wales),HARRIS,NEHER(MO,TN,VA),
NORDLING/NORDLINGER(IL,Alsace),WILLIAMSON(WI),WILL(PA),
WILLITS/WILLETS,WHITSON,JACKSON,POWELL,UNDERHILL(LI-NY).
Dennis P. Harris
Webmaster, Juneau GenWeb http://www.usgennet.org/~akjuneau

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