[WikiEN-l] en: CD! Well, sort of

Gallagher Mark George m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au
Thu Apr 6 08:06:59 UTC 2006


G'day David,

> 2011 articles? On CD ROM? The numbers of PCs with a CD-ROM drive but
> without an internet connection is probably not very high. Now if this
> was a _printed_ copy then it would be more useful to developing
> countries. The motives behind this are commendable, but I don't 
> see it
> working in practice.

I disagree.  You may be confusing "with Internet connection" with "capable of connecting to the Internet".

I have a laptop in my bedroom that has no Internet connection (it has a modem, and an ethernet card, but neither are connected to anything), but no CD-ROM ...  


-- 
Mark Gallagher






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