Courtesy Nissan - Parts and service manual CD-ROM
Wayne Cox
wmc_sr20@bellsouth.net
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:05:30 -0500
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