They should be able to be scanned in and then spell checked and edited
with much less effort.
Nick D.
Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> 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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