Re: (ET) manuals for electracs

["Don Barry" <Don Barry kirbycorp com>]

Peter brings up some good points.....

1) The new scanner doesn't use the bed when it's in auto mode... the sheet 
feeder pushes the paper past the scanner. I've already used it for mixed 
standard and legal papers; it worked fine

2) The OCR software automatically outputs in Adobe PDF format, and if 
you're using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, you get thumbnails and an index.

3) Weather or not Bill has the copyright on the ET owner's service manual 
or not, he does sell a lot of them, and we need to "take care" of bill. 
Does anyone on the list currently have a good standing personal 
relationship with Bill?  

Personally, I have a copy of the Owner's Sevice Manual from Bill, but the 
photocopy quality leaves much to be desired, especially on the pictures.

HOW ABOUT... on the WWW site, it does come with "merchant" software... we 
could sell the PDF copies and send the $$$ to Bill.

Any other ideas?

Don

>>> "Pieter Litchfield" <plitch attglobal net> 03/18/03 06:58PM >>>
A few thoughts about the scanning project.  I am all in favor of the widest
distribution of service information, and the idea of a scanned "library" 
has
much merit, but there might be a few things to kick around before firing up
the scanner:

I thought about (and the group discussed) this project many moons ago.  For
me the killer was my lack of a large dimension scanner and the purchase
price of Adobe software.  While the Adobe reader is free, their scan and
layout software is not.  That seems to be the universal document
transmission standard, and it makes sense to use it.  A standard must be
established for preserving and distributing the documents.

I was just thinking of scanning the ET user's service manual, but this has
some pretty critical foldout schematics (kinda like Playboy centerfolds for
the ET set...) that require at least a legal size scanner bed to deal with.
Be sure the hardware can handle all the issues!

In addition, the ET owner's service manual is sold by Bill Gunn, and there
was a real concern about undermining his ongoing support for ET owners by
putting it out there for a free download.  In addition, there is the
question of copyright.  As I recall, Bill has the copyright to at least the
owner's service manual (or did have).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Barry" <Don Barry kirbycorp com>
To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Cc: <pw12423 earthlink net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: (ET) manuals for electracs


> Have scanner, am ready to scan and OCR.
>
> Like I said, all I want to see is decent photocopies. If we're all
wondering what to do historically with a full set of manuals, my choice
would be to donate them to the Smithsonian. At least they will be cared for
there.
>
> Don
>
> >>> "Paul Wood" <pw12423 earthlink net> 03/18/03 11:49AM >>>
> Greetings,
>     I am looking for some input from any members about donating some old
manuals I don;t need. Seems there is a snag somewhere.  Comments to:
> Thanks,
> Paul Wood
>