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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: CD-ROM documents (was Paperless Office)
Message-ID: <2972@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:56:03 GMT
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In article <009406EF.82F93E60@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:

| I wonder if people will be giving up their stacks of National Geographic for a
| CD-ROM? Would kill a tradition. 

  Since I have gotten to the point where I have to throw away lots of
(still possibly useful) magizines, buy a bigger house, or get a divorce,
I certainly would be interested in buying "year end" CD-ROMs of most,
although not all, or the magazines I get.

  I currently scan a *very* small number of articles in for online use,
and cut a few out before the bulk of the magazine departs.

  Note that there is already one bimonthly magazine published in image
format, the "GIF news." While it's hardly a best seller (it's a
giveaway) it shows that some people are thinking about this.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.