Re: Online Car Manuals

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:41:10 GMT, "AstraVanMan"
<Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I don't have a computer in my garage, using my computer to download and
>> print car manuals would inevitably lead to my computer becoming dirty and
>> grease ridden too.
>
>Bollocks.
>
>> Any downloadable manual is going to have some similar DRM nonsense.
>
>Maybe.
>
>> Down with downloadable manuals! Book is best! Hurrah for books! Long
>> live the book!
>
>Fool.

All it needs a change of media format to something incompatible and a
few years later all those CD's are unreadable. All it needs is the
8cm DVD to be made standard and the 12cm DVD and CD's will be
un-useable. If multi GB CF or other memory cards get as cheap as a CD
there could be a move to them instead. You can easily get a whole CD
on to a 1GB CF card in CDaudio format and close to 9 boxed CF cards
into the space of one CD case. 4Gb is close to DVD size and would
hold a film without all the directors bits. Price 1/2's every 18
months or less, so about 10 years time.

When was the last time you used a 5 1/4", 3.5" or 3" floppy? I've got
boxes and boxes of them around here (even some 8"). The only time I've
used one in the last 2 years was when I booted my Einstein up to rip
the contents of my car's ECU rom (it somehow just happed to drop into
the MOS expansion socket).

Look at the BBC Doomsday project, only did it 20 years ago. A few
years ago they had the Phillips 12" laser discs but didn't have a
working player left, they couldn't access the content. They looked
and begged and offered to pay money so they could extract the original
content and re-master it to WWW or CD. Looks like it was saved but it
was really close to being down the pan.
http://www.domesday1986.com/

BBC recorded over a lot of early videotape as it was so expensive they
had to re use it. If it had been put on film there would have been no
possibility of re-use and many "classic" shows would still exist.
.

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