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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SOG-UK-L] British Vital records
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:44:28 +0100


In message <>, Eddie Grummett
<> writes
>
>I have to say that without casting aspersions on any genealogists in
>particular we are perhaps one of the least likely groups to have bang up to
>date, fast and furious machines and as such I'm surprised the CdRoms have
>such a high level of pc requirement - assuming that to be true.
>
My recent experience (sales of 16 bit versus 32 bit genealogy software,
and straw polls conducted at computing presentations at the SoG this
year) suggest you may be wrong here, and that most genealogists are
already using 32 bit Windows operating systems.

All is not lost though. The Folio Infobase format that the data is held
in will work with Windows 3.11 viewers and also with viewers written for
Macs. Provided that you can lay your hands on a suitable Folio Viewer,
you may still be able to access the data from these Operating Systems.
Don't ask me where to find one, I don't know!
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.u

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