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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 19000, member: 57463&quot;]From: High Plains Writer (mike1949marotta@aol.com)</p><p>Subject: Re: Coin Software </p><p>Newsgroups: rec.collecting.coins</p><p>Date: 2003-04-23 21:35:20 PST </p><p><br /></p><p>I have written two articles this year (and two others a while back)</p><p>about coin collecting software.&nbsp; I gathered as many as I could and ran</p><p>them as many ways as I could.</p><p><br /></p><p>In both articles, I recommend the same path to others.&nbsp; Get the demos</p><p>on CD.&nbsp; (Do not download demos.&nbsp; I got a virus that way -- and yes, we</p><p>have firewalls, etc., etc.)&nbsp; Get the CDs. Try the programs.</p><p><br /></p><p>What counts is not the software, but your collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>No two people collect the same material the same way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you want to include your scan of your coin in the inventory?&nbsp; How</p><p>many scans would you like to include?&nbsp; Do you care about the latest</p><p>Coin World &quot;Trends&quot; prices or other guides?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some packages let you change the names of fields.&nbsp; Some let you change the name of EVERY field.&nbsp; Some take a lot of memory and/or disk.&nbsp; Some assume that you collect 19th and 20th century US Type by Date and Mintmark -- and nothing else.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might actually need MORE THAN ONE software for a broad collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>In both articles (The Celator and The GNA Journal) -- and in this</p><p>newsgroup in posts like this -- I warn that the worst thing you can do</p><p>is take someone else&#039;s recommendation.&nbsp; Psychologist Leon Festinger</p><p>developed a theory known as &quot;Cognitive Dissonance&quot; to explain how we</p><p>justify choices that cannot be changed easily.&nbsp; &quot;I bought it and it</p><p>works pretty good for me.&quot; is an error signal, not a recommendation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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