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Icones Plantarum Tropicarum and Orchidacearum CD-ROM

Discussion in 'Everything Else Orchid' started by naoki, Sep 2, 2014.

  1. Sep 2, 2014 #1
    naoki

    naoki Well-Known Member

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    Do you recommend this CD-ROM?

    http://www.lbin.com/cd_roms/orchids.html

    I generally prefer physical books over electronic forms, but this seems to be a pretty good deal.

    Are they in html? Is it easy to search for keywords? Quality of figures? Are the contents useful? From the sample page, text description of biology/habitat/ecology of the species seem to be limited. But the distribution maps seem to be a nice feature.
     
  2. Sep 8, 2017 #2
    naoki

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    I didn't get any feed-back last time, but I'm considering to buy this again.
    Have anyone read this cd-rom?
     
  3. Sep 8, 2017 #3
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    Chuck-NH Well-Known Member

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    I don't have it but would love to...problem is does not work with MAC OS X
     
  4. Sep 8, 2017 #4
    naoki

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    Yeah, I noticed that, too. But it mentions linux, so I wonder if there is a way to make it work on OS-X. We could use Virtual Box or something, but I'm not sure if it works with newer Windowz, neither. If I decide to get it, I'll let you know if it works on OS-X.
     
  5. Sep 8, 2017 #5
    Marni

    Marni Well-Known Member Staff Member Supporting Member

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    I had a CD of this, not sure of the age. It was quite a long time ago. You couldn't really search it as it wasn't text, but scans. Save your money.

    The url has a copyright date on 1996. It says for Mac 7.0 or higher with a note that it is not compatible with OS X.
     
  6. Sep 8, 2017 #6
    naoki

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    Thanks, Marni. Do you happen to remember if the scanned images are only accessible via some special software/viewer? Searchable feature would be nice, but if I can extract the jpg (or whatever scanned image), I would be ok since Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I isn't easily available (I've been searching for it; series 2 is still available from robot). When I contacted, they didn't give me any useful info.

    Chuck, Icones Orchidacearum, which is a part of the cd-rom, is freely available: Icones Orchidacearum It is not reachable, but IOSPE generally contains the link to the plates in this series.