4.0278 Responses: Indexing; Disk/Disc; Yates on Memory (3/39)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 13 Jul 90 17:00:45 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0278. Friday, 13 Jul 1990.
(1) Date: 13 Jul 90 16:29:54 bst (14 lines)
From: "W.Watson" <ERCN94@emas-a.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.0247 Qs: Indexing
(2) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 09:21:39 EDT (12 lines)
From: "Adam C. Engst" <PV9Y@CORNELLA>
Subject: Re: Disk v. Disc
(3) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 11:22:01 BST (13 lines)
From: stephen clark <AP01@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: On Memory and Memorials
(1) --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 13 Jul 90 16:29:54 bst
From: "W.Watson" <ERCN94@emas-a.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.0247 Qs: Indexing
Jim O'Donnell might also look at the July 1990 issue of Byte magazine,
(which I just got y'day). In the International Section, pp. 64 IS 15-22,
Dick Pountain suggests using the Micro - Oxford Concordance Package to
do indexing.
He would have to read the details, to see how this compares with other
answers already offered via Humanist.
If the copy of Byte that he can buy does not include these pages, then
I'll put them on a xerox, if he will give me a paper mail address. Bill W.
(2) --------------------------------------------------------------25----
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 09:21:39 EDT
From: "Adam C. Engst" <PV9Y@CORNELLA>
Subject: Re: Disk v. Disc
About the term disc (vs. disk)... When I was doing some research into
videodisc applications, I came across mention somewhere (and I really
have no idea where) that the word "disc" should be used for read-only
media whereas "disk" should be used for read-write media. I can't see
that it makes much difference, but it is a handy rule of thumb when you
are dealing with both types of media.
Adam C. Engst pv9y@cornella.bitnet
(3) --------------------------------------------------------------24----
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 90 11:22:01 BST
From: stephen clark <AP01@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: On Memory and Memorials
Remember the Art of Memory (described by Frances Yates in The Art of
Memory). Placing what one needs to recall at will in an imagined building
is still a helpful device. I would also recommend as a splendid evocation
of what it's like to be a really efficient Bruno-esque memorist John
Crowley's fantasy novel Little Big, and the first volume of his Aegypt.
We imagined computer storage long before we had anything like computers.
Stephen Clark
Liverpool