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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (8051)	6/21/2004 9:00:11 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 21647

Michal is better off not with a book + supplemental ROM but rather, ROM + supplemental booklet. Could be, but I have a problem with it: I wouldn't buy it. And if I wouldn't, can't expect other to get excited about it. I love books, a book is what I want. The CD -- though a great idea -- is secondary to me.

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (8051)	6/21/2004 11:39:11 PM
From: Michelino	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21647

I was just looking my collections over CD-ROMs, including one creating as a companion to this exhibit: absolutearts.com and then I started to reflect. I saw the exhibit in 1998 at the local photography museum, and bought the CD-rom for the marked down price of $2 a few years later. It was very nicely produced! But to watch it now, I had to drop my monitor's resolution down to its minimum 800x600. (I can no longer get to the suggested VGA size...at least on this machine without using an emulator or virtual pc). I travel often just to see various art exhibits and I have dozens of catalogs from the last 30 years. The point is, of seven or eight shows that I saw in 1998 this is the only catalog that now seems out of date...all of the printed ones still "work" just fine and require no tweaking. So now, I am wondering about longevity of the CD ROM as publishing medium just because the target machine is still a moving one. I know that ten years from now those printed catalogs will still work fine...but will my CD-ROMS still scale up on whatever high definition electronic display device that I'll be using? (Not that I will stop buying CD ROMs, I'm both a computer and art junkie.)