Date   : Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:12:13 +0100
From   : aw29009@... (Andrew)
Subject: The Micro User

In message <485FAE33.3000008@...>
          Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99@...> wrote:

> Andrew wrote:
>> To be honest, it does seem a shame to destroy any old Acorn magazines
>> given the non-permanancy of the web.
> 
> Yep, although the way I see it, people scan stuff to preserve it - sharing it
> on the web is merely a side effect (after all, the 'net isn't really fast
> enough yet and 'online' storage not cheap enough to really share good quality
> scans - some drop in quality from the original scanned versions is almost
> inevitable)
> 
>  > I'd prefer a slightly distorted
>> image and the knowledge that they still exist in a well-kept library.
> 
> Do we have that knowledge? :)  I know NMoC have all the earlier ones, but I'm
> not sure about later issues.
> 
> I'm all for slightly distorted images on the web - but I still think people
> should be making the effort to scan at the highest possible quality.
> 
Not sure what NMoc is but the Daves seem to have complete library 
although DM's is the first full set of MU's I've heard about. I'm not 
sure if he has all the Acorn Computings though.

Andrew
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