Thanks for that. I had a look incase there was anything of interest and found a PDF of the Toy Bizarre manual (C64). I actually have the Spectrum version, without a manual - it was either part of the 6 game lightgun Spectrum pack (sold here in the UK in the late 80's/early 90's), or the 30 games boxset I got. I can't remember which right now. It was a very fun game, but it had a habit of crashing quite regularly so it didn't get played too much. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk --- On Sat, 3/1/09, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote: From: Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> Subject: I scanned some stuff To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Saturday, 3 January, 2009, 12:50 AM I have started up a document archive made up of stuff I've had sitting around the house and storage that needs to go. Here it is: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/ I'm trying to make sure I don't waste time by scanning stuff that's already out there. Consequently, I'm probably also scanning things no one will ever want. But hey, archiving is archiving. I'm starting with ringbound docs I don't have to destroy to scan, or things I didn't consider all that valuable. Stuff that I don't destroy or recycle will be sold or (more likely) given away. Top of that pile right now is the Atari 400/800 BASIC Reference Guide and the 410 Operator's Guide. They are free for the cost of shipping from 60074. They are together in a lovely "Atari Home Computers" ring binder and not all that light. Enjoy, and more to come! -j -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

Jason T wrote: Stuff that is already out there might be of much lower quality. If you shoot for high quality on all your scans, even your duplication probably isn't really duplication. IMHO, storage and transfer speeds are only going up and up --- I'd rather have a file take up a little more space and take a little longer to download, and have a better end result. While I have done a relatively small amount of scan-archiving (or whatever the heck its called), even if one person found it useful five years from now I would have considered it time well invested. I've been working on a retro-computing project for a couple years, and old-school original documentation is extremely valuable, and I'm always excited to find a new scan of some documentation that I can't find or didn't know existed. The power of the Internet with practically free duplication and instant delivery is nothing short of amazing wrt this type of work. Fantastic. Thanks for your hard work. There will be people thanking you in the future. Keith