> I wrote:
> >
> > Well, my greedy, gotta-have-a-full-library side says gimme,
> > gimme, gimme;

And Donna Garverick quipped:
>
> now, let's play nice :-)

Then I lamented:
> >
> > but my what's-really-best-for-the-user's-group side wins out

And Donna chimed:
>
> ahh, that's better :-)

But we digress...  ;-)

So, back on topic (me):
> >
> > 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.

(Donna):
>
> i'd sure like to see that happen.

Then Mark Bixby made a good point:
>
> 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.

Exactly!

He continues:
>
> 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.

Okay - I'll step up to the plate and do "Command File Tips and
Techniques" by Jack Bailie, which was printed in the March, 1994
Interact Magazine (kinda on-topic for me - and I've already had
a conversation with Jack - no electronic version is available).

However, we need someone to keep a list of who's doing what, and
that someone must have a library of ALL of the issues out there!
Maybe someone at Interex?

So, next victim - er volunteer, please!

Finally, Donna poses an ominous thought:
>
> (which i'm sure will generate a thread of monsterous proportions
> about just how to do this :-).

I vote for .TXT files, which can be read by most web browsers, as
well as printed fairly easily.

FWIW!

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