RE: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
It might be worth trying to talk to the IBM Museum at Hursley. https://slx-online.biz/hursley/contact_us.asp Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Guy Dunphy via > cctalk > Sent: 23 July 2019 04:28 > To: Mattis Lind ; General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts >

RE: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 07:16 PM 22/07/2019 +0200, Mattis Lind wrote: >> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines as a future restoration >> project. But can I find >> a service manual? No. None online, only one for the later 028. And even if >> there was a PDF >Have you seen these: >http://www.bitsavers.org/pd

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 21, 2019, at 6:20 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 07/21/2019 04:48 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: >> It is not the DPI that is problem on some scans, but they used >> a LOSSY format to store the data. JPEG IS NO! > Yes, ABSOLUTELY! JPEG is designed for things that have smooth to

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 12:43 Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:09 AM geneb via cctalk > wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > > > > > So for the moment, I have to keep all my scans local (but accessible). > > > > > No you don't. Uploading t

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:09 AM geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > > > So for the moment, I have to keep all my scans local (but accessible). > > > No you don't. Uploading to archive.org is painless and easy. > Maybe I'll try both :) Warner

RE: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
> >> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines as a future restoration > project. But can I find > >> a service manual? No. None online, only one for the later 028. And even > if there was a PDF Have you seen these: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/punchedCard/Keypunch/A24- 0520-2_24-26_Keyp

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread allison via cctalk
On 07/22/2019 10:55 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > At 10:41 AM 21/07/2019 -0600, you wrote: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 4:16 AM Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk > wrote: >> I'd suggest that in 2019 when bits are cheap and high-quality scanners >> nearly as cheap, "crappy quality digital image" is

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 10:41 AM 21/07/2019 -0600, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 4:16 AM Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote: >I'd suggest that in 2019 when bits are cheap and high-quality scanners >nearly as cheap, "crappy quality digital image" is a bit of a straw man. >Yes, I've seen plenty of barely-readabl

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 12:48 AM 22/07/2019 -0600, you wrote: >On 7/21/2019 8:07 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines as a future restoration >> project. But can I find >> a service manual? No. None online, only one for the later 028. And even if >> there was a PDF >> I

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: So for the moment, I have to keep all my scans local (but accessible). No you don't. Uploading to archive.org is painless and easy. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cock

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 21, 2019, at 6:16 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk > wrote: > > I'd suggest that in 2019 when bits are cheap and high-quality scanners > nearly as cheap, "crappy quality digital image" is a bit of a straw man. > Yes, I've seen plenty of barely-readable or practically unreadable s

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:27 AM Guy Dunphy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > At 07:58 PM 21/07/2019 -0700, you wrote: > >> Even if the digital version _did_ fully capture the information > content, I > >> strongly dispute that the physical item/document has lost it's value. > >> That '

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 1:28 AM Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Warner Losh wrote: > > I just scanned my Rainbow 100 User's Manual at 300, 600 and 1200dpi using > > the scansnap default settings. You see a jump between 300 and 600, but > > little dif

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:23 AM Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote: > > http://www.bitsavers.org/bitkeepers is something else. > > The site's contact email is right down the bottom of the front page. > > Visual, to stop spambots. > > Also Al posts here

Re: Scanning question

2019-07-22 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:21 AM ED SHARPE wrote: > > Great to know Tony! Yea the battery is dead indeed! Will the wallwart > power it even though the battery is dead? Wish I could remember where > I put the wall warts... missing are the one for a 16 line portable, a > disc

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, it was written Just give him time, he is only human after all ;-) I know :-) I think I should wait some more years (I found a mail from Feb. 2016, the last was from Aug. 2018) ;-)) Christian

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2019-07-22 09:23, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote: >> http://www.bitsavers.org/    bitkeepers is something else. >> The site's contact email is right down the bottom of the front page. >> Visual, to stop spambots. >> Also Al posts here in cctalk. > > Sp

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread David Collins via cctalk
While Al is working through his backlog, the HP Computer Museum would be happy to put them up in the appropriate device webpages. They would be a great addition to a site that focuses on vintage HP computing equipment! On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 17:23, Christian Corti via cctalk < cctalk@classicc

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Warner Losh wrote: I just scanned my Rainbow 100 User's Manual at 300, 600 and 1200dpi using the scansnap default settings. You see a jump between 300 and 600, but little difference going on up to 1200 for this material. I posted the That tells me that you need to scan at l

Re: Scanning Results

2019-07-22 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote: http://www.bitsavers.org/bitkeepers is something else. The site's contact email is right down the bottom of the front page. Visual, to stop spambots. Also Al posts here in cctalk. Speaking of this, I suggest to rethink the method of submitting scans t