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Tablet Version of 25 Year DVD?

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Posted by Chrisk-k on Friday, May 29, 2015 1:11 AM

So can I copy PDFs from the 25 year DVD? Then, I'll be able to read them on my iPad.

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Posted by Plane-Builder on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 10:07 AM

The files on the 25 year DVD are just PDF's. As I do not have a tablet I believe there is a new "tablet" version of Adobe called Acrobat DC.

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Posted by waynec on Sunday, May 17, 2015 4:43 PM

i have an APPLE IIC in thd bunker with an IMAGEWRITER printer

Никто не Забыт    (No one is Forgotten)
Ничто не Забыто  (Nothing is Forgotten)

 

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Posted by Chrisk-k on Friday, May 8, 2015 9:11 PM

I have 3 laptops (2 Apple 1 Dell).  None of them came with a CD drive.  I bought a $20 USB CD drive 2 years ago and have used it once when installing MS Office.

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Posted by jtilley on Friday, May 8, 2015 2:25 PM

I remember springing for over $100 to buy my stepdaughter a zip drive, because one of her education professors said she absolutely had to have it for his course. I wonder how many college students today would even recognize such a thing.

That same stepdaughter is getting married in a few months. Yesterday my wife bought, at Staples, a package of address labels for the invitations. The labels came with a CD-ROM. So I can use my free-standing CD drive to work the program. I'll bet it also could have been downloaded from the web, though.

Later correction: there was no disk in that package of labels. Just a page of instructions, which took me about an hour to sort out.

I wonder how many laptops come with CD drives these days. Just a few years ago, a CD drive was absolutely essential.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Friday, May 8, 2015 7:51 AM

I can fondly remember my Commodore 64

64k wow

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:39 PM

.................same here, especially since I experienced using single sided 5/14 floppy disks when they were state of the art........Embarrassed.

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Posted by Chrisk-k on Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:00 AM

I still have a Zip drive and 5 Zip disks.  When I bought them like 18 years ago, I was overwhelmed by the sheer 100MB capacity of a single disk.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:32 AM

jtilley

............................And shopping for a drive to access your old disks will be like shopping for an LP turntable to play your vinyl albums.

I feel old....

Don't start feeling old just yet.............I'm seeing more and more LPs in stores and the turntables to play 'em.Surprise
Hmmm.................odd you should comment on Zip drives..........I just found some while spring cleaning.HmmEmbarrassed
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  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:41 PM

Another point: the CD-ROM drive is rapidly disappearing. New desktop Macs don't have CD-ROM drives. I bought an external one for my Mac, but the guy at the Apple Store predicted that the CD-ROM will soon be as obsolete as the Zip drive. (Remember that one?) And shopping for a drive to access your old disks will be like shopping for an LP turntable to play your vinyl albums.

I feel old....

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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Tablet Version of 25 Year DVD?
Posted by Chrisk-k on Sunday, May 3, 2015 4:34 PM

I'd love to buy the FSM 25 year DVD. However, I hardly read e-articles on my computers.  Reading them on my iPad is infinitely more convenient.  It would be awesome for FSM to offer a tablet version.  Please do so!

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