I¹m posting this just on the Boat Anchors, Homebrew and Antique radio-phono
newsgroups.

Last month at a garage sale Â* I came across a large stack of Popular
Electronics and other electronic magazines from the 50¹s 60¹s and 70¹s that
were about to be thrown away.

Reading them has been a hoot! Unfortunately, I don¹t have the space to store
them but I still would like to keep reading them.

So, I plan to scan them by month on CD.

One month = One CD.

I will scan them in both Mac PICT format and Windows BMP format with no
compression. Most scanned images like QST CD¹s are in TIFF or JPEG format
which usually pretty bad for scanned paper.

Yes BMP and PICT take a bit more data Â* but with a 600 Meg CD, I should be
able to get an entire month with room to spare.

I have written a very nice program to view PICT files for the Mac. I write
my programs in SmallTalk which is object oriented so I can use the same
objects and come up with a WINDOWS BMP version. It won¹t be easy but it
could be done.

The question isÅ* would anyone like a copy?

The idea would be to send out the current month and keep things interesting
by choosing various years and sending it out once a month.

Like 1956 for June and 1966 for July and so on.

I plan to scan them cover to cover and keep all the ads, (which is part of
the fun). To get perfect scans, I will have to destroy the binding and
carefully take apart each page to be scanned.

It¹ll be a lot of work.

I figure $3 per CD will cover the cost and postage.

No subscriptions, no eBay auctions, This offer is only for these three
newsgroups.

I am looking for opinions or interest only - no orders at this time Â*

Please email me.

If no one is interested Â* I¹ll only scan it in Mac format and keep them to
myself.

There will also be an upper limit Â* I don¹t¹ want to spend most of the day
burning CD¹s.

This is just for a few folks wanting to re-live the good old days in
electronics before computers and "outsourcing American jobs to communist or
socialist nations".


- Biz WDØHCO