The Midlothian 2000 CD‐ROM

There are (or were) innumerable ways of marking the millennium, some more appropriate than others. Leaving a record for posterity of life at that statistically noteworthy time seems one of the more invaluable and permanent ways of commemorating such an event. In 1986 the BBC, of course, showed the way to some extent by marking the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book with its own ambitious Domesday Project. That project itself taught us the lesson of not relying on hardware (based around a 12‐in. laser disc and BBC microcomputer which worked beautifully for the project itself ‐ until my Library’s...