7 Jun
2007
7 Jun
'07
4 a.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at
verizon.net> wrote:
What sort of timescale is 'forever'? We've got numerous ones dating back to
the 70s which are showing no real signs of decay *yet*.
The shiny, ultra-thin paper often found in databooks actually seems to fare
better than coarser "book" type paper in my experience. I'm not sure why -
maybe it's more resistant to absorbing moisture from the air or something.
I hauled about 20ft of databooks into our workshop just the other week which
can go on the shelves - unfortunately a lot of it's early transistor stuff
rather than ICs, which is perhaps less useful: the majority of our
transistorised big iron has a healthy spare components cache and will document
the components anyway; later databooks would be more handy as a reference for
IC-populated machines, as in most cases they're a lot smaller and don't come
with a big cache of spares.
cheers
Jules
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 14:18, Chris M wrote:
Most databooks are printed on variable-to-poor quality paper and
will not last forever anyway. If you don't want to destroy them that
badly, then hopefully you will have them treated to neutralize the
acid in the paper. how about a sheet feeder Roy, bought(?) or home
made?
Then you could cut off the bindings, then feed them
in. It's what I'm going to do...one of these days.
Nope. I don't see
a need to destroy the books to get that info in there...