I was poking around in their website when I came across this gem in the section about submitting an article.
"These days, we like articles to be submitted as (preferably) Word documents or .txt files on a Zip disk, CD-ROM or floppy disk, formatted for PCs."
Zip drive? Floppy disk? Which century are these guys in?
Leo resisted email and internet for years....they are a pretty conservative bunch!
"keith ratbag"
** Got nothing to do with SC - its the folk who are likely to send them articles who are old school.SC are simply saying they have the ability to deal with older and even obsolete data formats.
For a project article, the author normally includes photos and hand drawn diagrams - cos many of them do not have the software to create pretty schems nor a decent digital camera.
.... Phil
That wouldn't stop them from accepting stuff on a USB key, and I'm not sure where you'd find a zip disk these day outside of a museum. Last time I saw one for sale would have been about 1999.
"keith ratbag"
** Massive straw man. ** You are not sure which way your fat, stupid arse faces.BTW: you stinking, congenital TROLL
Do the planet a favour - drop dead now.
.... Phil
Do us all a favour, go to the cupboard take out the pills and take them.
Jeeze and its not even the full moon.
SC always redraw circuit diagrams anyway, no matter how the contributor submits them. So you are wasting your time if you CAD a circuit diagram for SC, you may as well just scan your original hand-drawing.
Wonder if he talks to people IRL like he does here? My guess is no.
** Duh ??
** You missed the point - f****it.
Hand drawings and photos HAVE to be mailed, same as floppy disks etc.
... Phil
Yes, Homer.
You are very slow today. As usual....
It isn't worth taking the time to CAD your hand-drawing because SC won't print it directly anyway. They will always redraw it. So you may as well just send your scanned hand-drawn circuit and not waste time with CAD if you have made a hand sketch.
Rubbish. Nobody HAS TO use snail-mail anything anymore, anyone capable of sending a contribution to SC these days would use email (scan the drawings and photos) or if they are really locked in a techno-time-warp they could still fax 'em....
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