16 Aug
2014
16 Aug
'14
11:20 a.m.
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
Is there a lot of interest in this sort of stuff? I
have a bunch of old
Well I think there is - but I'm likely in the same "save it ALL" camp
as Jason Scott and the other archivists. Of course one must
prioritize projects so I went for one that was achievable (not too
many issues, low page count in each) as a first attempt at doing
magazine scans. Some didn't come out as nice as I would have liked
(badly cut edges, bleed-through, etc) but most are decent.
MacUser and Macworld magazines (various issues, 1985
thru 1996 or so)
including a mint October 1985 MacUser issue 1, a bunch of old LisaTalk
Report magazines, and some Sun Remarketing catalogs.
I'm sure those would be of interest. Be sure to check archive.org
(and other sites) first, as there is a lot of magazine scanning going
on out there. Byte is coming along slowly but steadily. I still
can't let go of my paper copies, though :)
CompuServe was interesting enough to scan but not holy or rare enough
that I didn't mind cutting them up (sorry Mr. Scott.) I have over 100
issues of Datamation here that I would love to share online (there's
really nothing else like them) but I won't destroy those.
DIYbookscanner and other projects/products have my attention.
-j