Biz WDØHCO wrote:
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

I think I might be interrested in some of them. Let us know exactly
what you have. I also have some old pop'tronics mags that I might think
of scanning myself (maybe have some you don't). Also some old
Electronics Illustrated mags. Being a Linux person, I think the bmp
format would be better for me than the PICT format.

If you get over run with requests maybe someone with more time on their
hands could duplicate your CD's for you (second source?). And maybe
someone out there with large BW could post the iso images on the web (a
month at a time for the current cd?).

I'm not sure why the .tiff and .jpg formats are a problem, the QST view
scans don't look too bad, and some of the problem seems to be they
were made from scans of microfilms of poorly stored old magazines!
Pehaps someone with some experience using image software can comment.