Randy Dawson wrote:
A few of us are building a Tektronix museum here in
Beaverton. I
have forwarded your mail to Ed Sinclair, (eds at vintagetek.otrg)
principal on the project. He has a 4051.
Thanks Randy.
VintageTek.org looks an interesting site!
Update on the fiches: A couple of days ago I got the library assistant
at work to show me how to use the fiche scanner. I tried one of the Tek
fiches and scanned a few pages - a marketing release and a price list -
and the results looked pretty good. Far better than the printouts I did
on the old microfiche printer way back in '98! (The same fiche printer
is still standing idle beside the new scanner!) The glass on this
scanner is _filthy._ I need to clean it, otherwise I'll have to move
the fiche around every couple of pages to stop the dirt lining up with
the text...
Anyway, over the next few weeks (months?) I hope to borrow the key to
the microfiche room and play with the scanner a bit more. I know it can
do TIFF as the output; I've just got to get the hang of margins and
stuff. (For example there are marks on the screen for A4 paper - not
ANSI size A, which the Tek manuals mostly are - but it actually scans a
bit outside them.)
As I said,
> Twenty-nine fiches (although some have only a few
sheets, and one
> has only a single sheet) with marketing announcements, brochures,
> manuals, and a lot of back issues of the 4050 series newsletter
> (which later became Tekniques magazine)
What are people interested in? I take it Bitsavers will be interested
in any manual they don't have (I've printed out a list of what they do
have). But (for example) the first two items are the release
announcement of the 4051 and the 1977 4051 price list. Who is
preserving this sort of stuff?
Philip.