19 Mar
2013
19 Mar
'13
9:03 a.m.
Hi Richard (and Al) -?
If one had the capability and interest in submitting scanned images is there any
particular format, meta-data or other criteria that would be helpful?
?
Lee Courtney
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From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Old manuals -- Need archiving?
In article <CA+tCPu812ZmiZ2Dp-rJinv90PkcJuy4pAivH7TT_b3da-0z+hw at mail.gmail.com>,
? ? Kurt Nowak <knowak at alumni.calpoly.edu> writes:
Al Kossow who runs bitsavers.org seems to be your best
bet. He is a
saint for doing this, from my experiences, he is extremely busy with a
huge backlog of donated manuals to scan/archive. I also have lots of
unneeded manuals and I am honestly little reluctant sending him
anything as Im afraid they would just sit and never get scanned. I
wish there were more folks out there with fancy document scanners to
do the grunt work of scanning documents for Al. I am sure I am not
alone here. A whole army of scanners is probably whats needed!
I help out Al by offloading scanning for him when I can.? I do lots of
scanning for bitsavers.? I am happy to have other cctalk members send
me documents for scanning.? For instance I recently scanned a bunch of
Stardent documentation: <http://manx.classiccmp.org/search.php?cp=126&q=>
I have access to a nice 600dpi optical sheet feed scanner at work that
makes quick work of most things.? Stuff that is in 3-ring binders or
loose sheets works best.? Stuff that is spiral bound is the next
easiest to scan and stuff that is glue or sewn bound is the most
amount of work.
I tend to scan stuff that is of interest to me personally, so that
means that terminals and graphics items tend to go to the head of the
queue for me.
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