Courtesy Nissan - Parts and service manual CD-ROM

[Wayne Cox]

At 09:35 AM 8/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone asked Courtesy why they do not offer the SE-R
>data on CD-ROM?  They have it for all Z's, the 510 and even
>the Frontier truck!  Why no SE-R?  Do we need a write in/

Sure would be nice.  But Nissan, not Courtesy, publishes the ones that are
available.  So far, they're only done the classic / collectable Nissans and
the newer cars.  Transferring the whole ufiche to a CD would probably be
too expensive an undertaking for Courtesy, given the demand.  Might also be
copyright issues.

Like it or not, the majority of B-13s were inexpensive, disposable
econo-boxes and a heck of a lot have already been retired to the
junkyard.  The rest are 9 to 12 year old cars now.  And the majority of
owners probably go to retail parts places (eg: autoZone) rather them OEM
sources.

I don't know if there's any process to automatically transfer a ufiche to a
CD. Would probably fit on one, maybe two depending on the content and
compression achieved.  Sorta funny - just 10 years ago in the IT biz, we
were sending 9-track tapes of sizeable reports to an outside service to be
xfered to fiche (C.O.M.) since it was an unwieldy amount of paper to keep
around, and disk cost over $20/mb!  Ah, the bad old days.

   -Wayne