Sorry wasn't aware of the operational aspects of bitsavers or how stuff finds it's
a way in there (although I just had a good read of it all).
But having said that, it looks like this collection perished without finding its way to
bitsavers so it?s not so much where its stored - it?s the act of collecting the paper and
scanning it in.
If I scan stuff can I add it or get it added to BitSavers - I'm not sure because
there's a notice on their web site (and I'm certainly not decrying their efforts -
its highly valued resource intensive work):
"Due to the current several year backlog of documents to process, we are not actively
soliciting additional paper or scans to add to the collection"
(Not sure if I can do anything but I might send them an offer of help.)
Kevin Parker
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
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Sent: Monday, 30 October 2017 11:14
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Subject: Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David
Packard
On 10/29/17 4:59 PM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote:
Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply
this concept to the scanning and archiving and retention of any paper based repositories
that still exist.
What a brilliant idea. We could call it "bitsavers"!