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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat
Retlaw
It seems such a shame that all your research is not available to the general public. You clearly have your reasons for not wanting that website to get hold of your material but anyone in the future who needs the information you have will have to do the extensive research work again.
With regard to the old info, created in DOS6, do you know what format it was created in and on what machine?
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Give me a good reason as to why I should spend all this time and money, just to make it available to the general public, I've met many of those general public over the years, and some are too bone idle to do their own research, they think they have a God given right to other peoples work, some without a thank you or acknowledgement. Children at school are now using the internet to do their school work, and just printing out what they find, thinking thats research, its NOT.
As to people having to do the research all over again, I doubt they could, not all my original sources of information are still available, you would be surprised how much has been lost, thrown away or stolen in the past 20 years. The Christ Church 1918 roll of Honour vanished during refurbishment, Ive made them another. Woodnook Baptists bronze memorial was stolen, again during refurbishment. Quite a number of old churches in Accrington no longer exist, some are now mosques, others demolished, such as the Sacred Heart on Blackburn Rd, the panels that were removed, are not the originals, the originals were carved mable and weighed some two tons.
To people doing family reseach, all they need to do is contact Accy Library, or the Haworth Art Gallery, they in turn will contact me.
As to the info in DOS 6 of course I know the format, I'm using it every day. The machine has been rebuilt many times over the years, the original hard drive was 40 meg, I was told I would never fill it, Ha, the hard drive in the rebuild I'm using now has its own separate DOS partition, DOS 6 will only operate in a 2 gig partition.
That computer has never been connected to the internet and never will be, it cannot be infected by virus's or hacked.
Retlaw.