Klarinet Archive - Posting 001241.txt from 1998/10

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sneezy II & Klarinet Archive CD-ROM update
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:46:39 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 19:31
Subject: Re: [kl] Sneezy II & Klarinet Archive CD-ROM update

>> Right now the CD-ROM consists of the entire Klarinet Archives since
>> 1992, about 125Mb when burned on the CD-ROM. As new things get added
to
>> Sneezy they'll be added to the CD-ROM.
>
>Given that the volume of posts will probably continue for
>many years hence, what will be the cut-off date for burning
>of the ROM? Has that date already been chosen? How long
>will you wait before burning a subsequent ROM? Five more
>years?

I'll add to the master every month or so. The CD-ROMS I'm sending out
can be updated later for a fee $2.00 less than I'm currently charging
(the media costs $2.00). I figure at the current rate of posts the
CD-ROM will be filled in about 4 more years. At that time I'll have to
go to 2 CD-ROMS (Vols. I & II).

At some point in the future the density of cheap recording media will
increase and we'll be able to get more data onto a different medium -
possibly DVD or something along those lines. When DVDs are ubiquitous
and the cost of a DVD recorder drops to the $200.00 level I'll consider
it.

Until then, we'll make do. It's currently the cheapest way to make the
Klarinet Archive data personally available to people other than going
out via the Internet, and affords the possibility of higher speed
searches for relevant material.
----
Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet
All-around good guy and devil-may-care flying fool.
"There can be no freedom without discipline." - Nadia Boulanger

-------------------------------------------------------------------------