RE: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak

["Solid Technologies" <solidtech qwest net>]

All,
  In my opinion, the most logical person for the role is Don Barry.  We are
grateful to Don for the Elec-Trak web site and, if he has the time, having
him serve as librarian would be a natural corollary.  Don (below) asked for
someone to help prepping the materials.  We could do something like:
1. Paul ships materials to Joe Rock
2. Joe gets them all copied/prep'ed for scanning
3. Joe ships clean set to Don
4. Don scans and posts materials.

  That would also most likely result in two sets hardcopy.  Anyone aware of
an antique tractor museum where we could have the originals kept (of 
course,
only if they had an ET on display)?

thoughts?
--joe
ET-15 in Colorado

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of Paul Wood
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:05 PM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak


Dear Ralph and Elaine,,
Please consult Joe in Co., Chuck in MN, and two others offerers for the 
lib.
job.
The gent in MN with nothing else to do all day sounds like best suited for
the slot, but  Joe in CO was first and I vote for Joe or MN gent, 'but  I
have no appointee standing, so
advise me when you are finished conferring.  Best luck.
Paul  Wood
----- Original Message -----
From: "ralphgv" <ralphgv netzero net>
To: "Elec-trak group" <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: Fw: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak


> Paul,
>
> I have an old scanner with no sheet feeder.  I found out I can scan pages
> with an art program with the scanner set at black & white only and set 
> the
> brightness midway.  The yellow becomes white on the copy.  Save them as
.bmp
> files.  You can also cleanup the copies with the art program before you
save
> them.  A sheet feed scanner can scan all the pages into an art program
> putting each page on a separate file automatically.  If/when they look ok
to
> you, OmniPage Pro can import them and convert them to text and .pdf 
> files.
>
> Ralph & Elaine Vogan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Barry" <Don Barry kirbycorp com>
> To: <pw12423 earthlink net>; <solidtech qwest net>
> Cc: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:30 AM
> Subject: (ET) Re: newly designated librarian for elec-trak
>
>
> Paul,
>
> I have a brand-spankin' new HP D145 printer-copier-scanner. The scanner
has
> am automatic  sheet feeder on it. I recently also purchased ScanSoft's
> OmniPage Pro Office software ($400), which is made for bulk feeding of
> documents.
>
> I've scanned a bunch of stuff for my Homeowners' Association, it works
quite
> fast, and outputs PDF's complete with indexes.
>
> Fair warning though, because of their age, most ET documents will need to
be
> photocopied first to remove the "yellowing" (all modern copy machines 
> have
> special algorithms to do this), and then scan in the photcopy output. IN
THE
> CASE OF MANUALS, ETC, THIS MEANS CUTTING THE SPLINE OF THE MANUALS
> (unbinding them) , so you can sheet-feed the pages.
>
> We also need to be aware of not posting up the ET Homeowner's manual as
Bill
> Gunn sells that one.
>
> So I can scan your stack of stuff, but the stack may not look very pretty
> afterward!
>
> Anybody want to be an assistant to get Paul's stack of stuff decently
> photocopied?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Don
> Humble Webmaster of www.elec-trak.org & www.elec-trak.com
> 1970 E-15, fully restored
> Houston, Texas
>
>
>