Tim Ericson writes:
>
> Allan Chalmers wrote:
> >
> > How about letting Donna look them over and then send the rest to
> > Interex?   Tim, being second, what do you say?
>
> Well, my greedy, gotta-have-a-full-library side says gimme, gimme,
> gimme; but my what's-really-best-for-the-user's-group side wins out
> and would like to see them go to Interex; hopefully with Interex
> somehow creating scanned and webified (and maybe OCRed?) versions of
> the major articles from them.  From what Michael Doyle said earlier,
> I don't know how much they'll get used, though!  I know I'd bookmark
> such a site, and would refer to it a few times per year - I guess
> it's a question of cost effectiveness.

I threw out the bulk of my Interacts long ago, but I did preserve my first
issue, Vol 2 Issue 2 (March/April 82).  Thumbing through this issue only
turns up a single article of possible technological relevance today --
"Real and Long Data Types in Basic/3000".  But I've never used Basic on the
3000, so I can't be certain.

The other content of ads, Interex news, SIG news, RUG news, etc, while
somewhat interesting from a historical or nostalgic point of view, probably
doesn't justify the preservation effort.

But at one or two or three "worthy" articles per issue, and an HP3000-L
subscriber list of several hundreds, if every person interested in preservation
could personally type in or OCR an article or two, then maybe a good chunk
of this history could be preserved.

- Mark "no time to volunteer for this" Bixby
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