yeah, then you get into other issues...
like certain individuals being total ass-hats because they won't
"allow" people to get simple photocopies of "their" precious
documentation.
They don't want anyone scanning it in, unless it's done to their exacting
standards,
which, 100% of the time, are totally a waste of time and useless.
eg: there's the only existing printout of a document from the 80s, where the printout
is dot matrix,
with the dots the size of quarters and the guy won't scan it unless you use a $50,000
machine set
at 9600 dpi, hand fed, with latex gloves in a clean room and then archived onto
gold-master archive CD's.
when, a standard photocopier will actually make a copy that is more readable than the
original, and
thus supply a better scan in the end.
the result being they horde their collections, the only copies in existence, and never get
around to scanning it,
or sometimes, they will scan it, but won't give (or sell) the scans because it's
their *precious*
in the end, the only copies around are destroyed or lost because one person is being
difficult.
In my case, I know I have the only existing copies of certain things (believe me, I've
looked), and if other copies
are out there, no one is doing anything about it or saying anything, so the result is the
same.
For me, I'm trying to scan it all in and get it out there, or as many people to enjoy
as possible.
and hopefully, in the future copies will survive me.
Maybe things will get better when that UK project that allows us to download our minds
onto the internet finally completes...
Dan.
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:06 -0700
From: aek at
bitsavers.org
To:
Subject: Re: Rescued documentation issues
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
I've been tilling through all my docs from
the 70's+
unique and rare documentation no one else has,
and digitizing the heck out of it, then tossing the originals.
Which brings up the problem of how to create a private index so
there isn't massive duplication of effort.
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