10 Jan
2009
10 Jan
'09
11:54 a.m.
Jason,
The DEC catalog is fairly common on eBay, coming up every month or so
with later years more common than ones from the 70's. Mine is from
January 1992 but my interests are VAXen and networking rather than PDPs.
These books are invaluable for converting a DEC model number like
DEMPR-AA into something helpful like "ThinWire Ethernet Multiport
Repeater". Having this scanned will be helpful as a computer can search
a PDF without wearing out the book. If "debinding" will facilitate the
scanning then I would go for it.
A list of archive sites would be helpful as the search engines don't
seem to find them all (at least not when I'm searching). If people will
send me lists of such sites, I'll put up a page on the MARCH site. Also,
I've been planning a list of member's sites.
Jim
Jason T wrote:
Sooo......no one has this book out there, then? If
not, I will
consider it at least "rare" and do what I can to preserve it as intact
as possible. We have a print shop at work that could probably rebind
it for me, although I'd still consider that sub-optimal, as I would
lose the spine printing, but it may be the best I can do. I think the
info contained in this catalog is valuable enough to the DEC collector
community that it warrants it.
As for automated book scanning, that is not in my budget, nor do I
have the lego skills required ;)
Is there a master list of documentation archive sites out there
somewhere? There is bitsavers, vt100.net, 1000bit, and at least a
couple others I've seen mentioned on this list. Perhaps someone
should start a Wikipedia article or something similarly centralized so
such a list could be collected. It would be handy not only for the
obvious, but also for folks like me to make sure that they are not
re-scanning something that's already out there.