Hello Friends:

Jerry Fochtman noted:

>I wonder if there is much interest in Interex publishing a set of CDs
>containing all the publications since the inception of the group.  I
>know that instead of all the boxes of magazines that I have, I'd
>gladly purchase a set of CDs!  (Now if only HP-Professional, HPChronicle
>and NewsWire would do the same!)

I guess Jerry intends for us to assume that Interex has already agreed to
publish such a set of CDs. That would be the only way the NewsWire could
"do the same" -- if somebody else had done it first.

Considering that acres of the Interex material exists only in print, I
cannot wait to order my set. It is apparently the only way some Interex
articles can be shared at all -- if they are offered on the CD set. I am
curious about why the Interex presentations of this year's HP World aren't
being offered on a multimedia CD, as they were last year. Perhaps CD
offerings need a little more time to gain popularity. I know that
everything possible was done to promote them last year.

<plug>
NewsWire readers will have to content themselves with the editor's-cut
expanded contents, searchable by keyword index, of all our issues between
August 1996 and today. (Yes, that's 25 months, plus 25 Online Extra issues,
of 3000-only news and features.) All you have to do to find the best
history of the HP 3000's renaissance is subscribe to the NewsWire. The
history is waiting for our paid subscribers at
http://www.3000newswire.com/newswire/subscribers
</plug>

In this way, 3000 customers don't have to wait for the inevitable debate
about how much a historical CD set should cost, who should pay for it, and
whether there is enough interest. We know there's enough interest in the
3000's history. That's why we posted our first publication pages on the
3000 in the fall of 1995. You can access those on our FreeNews site,
http://www.3000newswire.com/newswire

Any CD product, while possibly more accessible to more folks than Web
offerings, suffers from the same problem as all CD roundups. As soon as it
is published it is not comprehensive. That seemed to us to be a serious
limitation for the 3000 community -- a place where 25-year-old code,
contributed software and expertise can have just as much strategic value as
product evaluations of today.

Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
The 3000 NewsWire
Independent Information to Maximize Your HP 3000
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