RE: The Model Train Magazine Index has moved!

Mark Mathu · 2010-07-15T01:20:59+00:00

Jeff Scarbrough wrote (a long time ago):The ten-year run of hosting of the Model Train Index at Kalmbach isover.The web site says:To our readers:The advancement in Internet browser technology has created aninsurmountable problem for the Model Train Index, which has been afixture on for many years.The information in the Model Train Index and its integrated softwareoriginally were written in MS-DOS language 20 years ago by a trainhobbyist on his PC as a personal project. It was not designed for theInternet and the software is unique to the index.Kalmbach Publishing Co. purchased the index and its software manyyears ago. We created a website interface for the index and made theindex a featured part of the website.Today, the progression of technologies on the Internet and theantiquated software of the Model Train Index have intersected to thepoint that we can no longer offer the index to our website visitorsbecause we can no longer keep the index free of viruses or other evenmore significant Internet security risks.The index software cannot be rewritten to update its security level,nor is there any method of transferring the index text information toa more modern software platform since the design of the index softwareand the index text information are integral to each other.Because of these issues, we have reluctantly removed the index from