11 Nov
2004
11 Nov
'04
6:59 a.m.
Hi Folks,
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
I'm the seller of the microfiche collection up on ebay. I apologize that
I haven't jump in here sooner and talked about this.
The collection HAS been scanned into a ~4GB set of jpegs and tiffs.
A professional scanning company was used: www.data2cd.com. At the time,
over 2 years now, they were the cheapest and scanned per microfiche.
Due to time constrains, absent-mindedness, and bandwidth limitations, I
haven't made the files available.
The scans are only organized into pages per microfiche... no other
sorting or labeling has been done. In some cases, there are more than
one set of documents present on a microfiche.
There are some pages were data2cd was not able to extract enough detail.
Either the density was beyond their equipment and/or the original page
was not transfered/photographed correctly.
I'd be very happy to flood someone's connection for a weekend to
transfer the files over with the promise to organize and host the files
for the general vintage computing public. Ideally, it would be nice to
have these organized into PDFs. Also, it would be nice to throw some
files at an OCR to extract the diagnostic source code.
My recommendation is to bet on the auction if you have a desire to
collect such material and can preserve it. Please don't bet with the
only intention to scan these -- that's already been done!
-- Michael
11 Nov
11 Nov
7:09 a.m.
New subject: Hold the scanners! (was DEC Docs, Diagrams, and Diags. on Microfische)
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Michael wrote:
My recommendation is to bet on the auction if you have
a desire to collect
such material and can preserve it. Please don't bet with the only intention to
scan these -- that's already been done!
ohmigod -- a person with ethics! Let's flame him, then toss
him off the list! :-)
THE SECOND PART IS A JOKE. A JOKE.
(I've got in trouble for ironic humor on other lists, so I'll
be explicit from now on.)
7:22 a.m.
New subject: Hold the scanners! (was DEC Docs, Diagrams, and Diags. on Microfische)
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 13:09 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Michael wrote:
I hope he's not using a 5 line email client and forgot to scroll down on
that one ;-)
My recommendation is to bet on the auction if you
have a desire to collect
such material and can preserve it. Please don't bet with the only intention to
scan these -- that's already been done!
ohmigod -- a person with ethics! Let's flame him, then toss
him off the list! :-)
THE SECOND PART IS A JOKE. A JOKE.
(I've got in trouble for ironic humor on other lists, so I'll
be explicit from now on.)
12 Nov
12 Nov
1:33 a.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Michael wrote:
Fine! I'll just keep the files to myself! See if you get any copies of
documentation! You can sit all alone in the dark with nothing to
read!
:-)
-- Michael
My recommendation is to bet on the auction if you
have a desire to collect
such material and can preserve it. Please don't bet with the only intention to
scan these -- that's already been done!
ohmigod -- a person with ethics! Let's flame him, then toss
him off the list! :-) 
4:11 a.m.
ohmigod -- a person with ethics! Let's flame him, then toss
him off the list! :-)
Fine! I'll just keep the files to myself! See if you get any copies of
documentation! You can sit all alone in the dark with nothing to
read!
:-)
5:54 a.m.
New subject: Hold the scanners! (was DEC Docs, Diagrams, and Diags. on Microfische)
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Michael wrote:
But but -- what about ME!
Just kidding of course, thanks for handling things the way
you are.
ohmigod -- a
person with ethics! Let's flame him, then toss
him off the list! :-)
Fine! I'll just keep the files to myself! See if you get any copies of
documentation! You can sit all alone in the dark with nothing to
read!
:-) 
11 Nov
11 Nov
7:17 a.m.
The collection HAS been scanned into a ~4GB set of
jpegs and tiffs.
I'd be very happy to flood someone's
connection for a weekend to
transfer the files over with the promise to organize and host the
files for the general vintage computing public.
I doubt I can do the "organize and host" bit. But-- are those scans
backed up anywhere, or is there only one copy of them? I have 4G of
space that can't easily be exported to the public, but would happily
stash a copy to guard against things like disk failure.
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12 Nov
12 Nov
1:37 a.m.
der Mouse wrote:
I doubt I can do the "organize and host"
bit. But-- are those scans
backed up anywhere, or is there only one copy of them? I have 4G of
space that can't easily be exported to the public, but would happily
stash a copy to guard against things like disk failure.
Right now, subject to change, there are 3.5 copies - the originals on
CD, two copies on RAID-5'ed filesystems and 1/2 up on bitsavers.
There's was a technical difficult last night which caused the transfer
to abort half-way through to bitsavers.org
-- Michael
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