Dear Lads and Lassies, OK, I'm a 30 year old, who is a LRRSA member, have been a modeller and interested researcher for East Coast logging tramways for the last 10 years, and have been "doing my

Because it is on the go all the time and when a drive is going to fail then it will be C drive. All my PCs have separate drives which can be unplugged when C drive needs formatting. C drive only

Hi everyone, Went to the Colonel's house last night to make a note of what he saw locomotive wise. While he did not make an extensive search for every unit like we did last year, the

Howdee, This one is primarily aimed at fellow Yahoogroup member John Shoebridge. Firstly thanks to John for the article in the latest Light Railways. One cannot get enough information about

Afternoon all, Just my two cents worth. I still far prefer the paper version of all magazines and am willing to pay the cost of recieving it this way. As a few would know I do not

Got nothing to do where you buy the CDs, even yours in NSW will do the same - trust me. Yes an external HDD is the only way for storage now, CDs are used merely for transport. Oops thats a bit

espee8800 wrote: Well, your CDs in Victoria must be pretty poor quality or pretty expensive, or maybe they fade quicker down there. However since one can now get a 300GB HDD for under $100, that

Unfortunately those people are missing out on so much! Could you do another survey? wrote:

And a 20c CD would probably last 20'. For quality CDs you need to pay a bit more than that and then even then they will fade within a few years. Downloading to your HDD is the only way to go provided

A C Lynn Zelmer wrote: No, I said it would cost somebody a 20 cents CD to make their own permanent copy of what was on the web (in contrast to a potentially greater cost for printing it), which is a

I'd be willing to consider doing that if the electronic format could be priced to include it's share of the actual costs, including editing, preparation of photographs, on-line storage, etc. Far too

Frank, thank you for such an analytic response. A few questions: Frank Stamford wrote: Is there any data re the age profile of the yahoo group members compared with the LRRSA membership

those of That may very well be. We, amongst other similar organisations, have great difficulty in attracting young members. At least we are maintaining our level of membership at around 700, which

Hello Bill, I will send you details of the North American ordering information in a separate email. If there are any other overseas members of this group who would like those details please contact

G'day all, I'm a 22 year old uni student, I work enough to pay for fuel and not much more. But Books (and mags) are one thing I will make the effort to afford, I have 6 LRRSA Vic logging books

As a book junky I agree entirely with your sentiments Bill, computers are for work ----- books (with all their attendant joys) are for home. I hate to admit it but I have many books on the shelf that

What you are forecasting Eddie will probably lead to the expansion of the e-book or e-magazine where the research and production remain but the actual printing is up to the

As I spend a large part of my day staring at a computer monitor, I enjoy in the evenings, sitting down in a comfortable lounge chair with a good book. I really don't want look at a monitor for

A C Lynn Zelmer wrote: So true, Lynn. But why is the cost of printing even relevant? If someone wants to preserve web content in permanent form, why go further than a 20-cent CD? My intended point