tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755954018495760071.post7561959667028151455..comments2023-11-03T09:18:57.747-04:00Comments on Rain of Error: The Cross-Time EngineerMad Guruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15024900968269083276noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755954018495760071.post-65097287644839868922012-11-08T15:58:29.121-05:002012-11-08T15:58:29.121-05:00"But would I have had a pdf of this book, or ..."But would I have had a pdf of this book, or a thumb drive, some twenty years ago? Of course not. At best it might have been written as a FORTRAN program on a series of 5.25 inch floppy disks. "<br /><br />Twenty-five years before this article was 1986. CD-ROM's were introduced in June of 1985 and PostScipt (the basis of pdf) was developed in 1982.<br /><br />However, books on CD in 1986 would have been more likely to have been in plain text or some word processor format. There were books available then electronically; Project Gutenberg started in 1971,Larry Headlundnoreply@blogger.com