Not to discourage you, the world could use more people
willing to scan
and archive what they have, but
http://www.classiccmp.org/bitsavers/pdf/kaypro/
Ahh. Didn't realize that. However, mind has a publish date of June
1985, which may indicate that it has more or corrected info.
I scanned my ampro littleboard docs, but then I
removed them when I
found they were already online. Howard Harte has some stuff here:
http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/Ampro/
Ahh, that matches the one I have. Thanks for the heads up.
Check and scan what he doesn't already have. Of
course, if you are so
inclined, scan everything you have. But if you are going to triage,
scan things that aren't online.
The attitude I'm taking is that if it'll stay still long enough to scan,
it's fair game. I just wish I had unbound copies of the Bug Books.
(BTW, I've only got Bug Book III. If anyone out there has I and II or
any of the follow-ons (if there were any), please let me know if you're
willing to part with them.)
H89 ROM listings are already online, but they are
behind a password at
http://www.sebhc.org/. Having copies freely available would benefit
more people.
Ok. It looks like the one MTR-90 listing book I've got is not loose, so
I won't be scanning that until I find one that's bound in the blue
covers that can be separated without band-sawing spine off of it.
(which I would do if I had another clean and intact copy)
I have used a nice high speed copier/scanner at work
that can spit out
tif files or ready-to-go pdf files. There is a word of caution though.
The machine is set up to have a very high quality dithering algorithm
in order to get the visually most appealing results. This is different
than the simple threshold quantifier that you get from most scanners
when you ask for B&W scans. When you zoom in close to the text, the
edges will have a feathered appearance as the copier is trying to
approximate partial pixel coverage. It looks good, but hurts
compression and doesn't do anything helpful for OCR.
You might want to grab one of the smaller TIF files and see if it'll
cause any problems. I didn't notice any dithering on the one I spot
checked yesterday, but I may have missed something.
g.