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I have access to several meters of manuals of various sorts around CP/M on PCs and various bits on mainframes. That are earmarked to go after decades on "cannot dump that" heartbleed. Most are originals, but also many copies. I helped to put some on eBay but nobody wanted them. What should I do?
Is there a postal address to which we can send several parcels?
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Is there a postal address to which we can send several parcels?
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Look at the list at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums if you have a museum nearby. In that case, contact them and ask if they are interested. Some of them scans old documents to make sure they are preserved.
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Is there a postal address to which we can send several parcels?
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Look at the list at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums if you have a museum nearby. In that case, contact them and ask if they are interested. Some of them scans old documents to make sure they are preserved.
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Look at the list at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums if you have a museum nearby. In that case, contact them and ask if they are interested. Some of them scans old documents to make sure they are preserved.
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Look at the list at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums if you have a museum nearby. In that case, contact them and ask if they are interested. Some of them scans old documents to make sure they are preserved.
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Look at the list at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_museums if you have a museum nearby. In that case, contact them and ask if they are interested. Some of them scans old documents to make sure they are preserved.
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You could have a look on bitsavers.org. They catalogue and preserve computer manuals. If you have manuals not on there, I am sure they would accept a copy, either scanned or maybe in the form of dead trees.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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I'd get a nice sheetfed document scanner, cut off any bindings, and feed in the manuals one at a time. Then upload to archive.org.
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First, check if the documents aren't already present on Bitsavers and Archive.org.
If you do have something unique that hasn't been scanned yet, you can maybe try the new initiative announced today by Jason Scott aka @texfiles:
Announcing SCANTASTIX, a project that @KevinSavetz and I have
whipped up to go after a class of what I call "Unadvocated Materials"
and can be summarized as "If you have a few extra bucks, you can
ensure neat stuff gets scanned and put on the Internet Archive".
...
If you saw how we did the Ted Nelson Junk Mail project, this would be
similar. We take boxes of material, loose or bound, and scan it into
digital form and store away the originals.
Alternatively, you can try a service like 1dollarscan.com (there may be others)
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Kindling or heat during a long cold winter comes to mind. Cheaper than shipping and a lot less labor intensive than scanning them all. Not too many people care about CP/M or
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You could have a look on bitsavers.org. They catalogue and preserve computer manuals. If you have manuals not on there, I am sure they would accept a copy, either scanned or maybe in the form of dead trees.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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You could have a look on bitsavers.org. They catalogue and preserve computer manuals. If you have manuals not on there, I am sure they would accept a copy, either scanned or maybe in the form of dead trees.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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You could have a look on bitsavers.org. They catalogue and preserve computer manuals. If you have manuals not on there, I am sure they would accept a copy, either scanned or maybe in the form of dead trees.
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You could have a look on bitsavers.org. They catalogue and preserve computer manuals. If you have manuals not on there, I am sure they would accept a copy, either scanned or maybe in the form of dead trees.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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"I have a VERY large backlog of material to scan and don't actively sollicit material to work on." says the web page.
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I'd get a nice sheetfed document scanner, cut off any bindings, and feed in the manuals one at a time. Then upload to archive.org.
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I'd get a nice sheetfed document scanner, cut off any bindings, and feed in the manuals one at a time. Then upload to archive.org.
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First, check if the documents aren't already present on Bitsavers and Archive.org.
If you do have something unique that hasn't been scanned yet, you can maybe try the new initiative announced today by Jason Scott aka @texfiles:
Announcing SCANTASTIX, a project that @KevinSavetz and I have
whipped up to go after a class of what I call "Unadvocated Materials"
and can be summarized as "If you have a few extra bucks, you can
ensure neat stuff gets scanned and put on the Internet Archive".
...
If you saw how we did the Ted Nelson Junk Mail project, this would be
similar. We take boxes of material, loose or bound, and scan it into
digital form and store away the originals.
Alternatively, you can try a service like 1dollarscan.com (there may be others)
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First, check if the documents aren't already present on Bitsavers and Archive.org.
If you do have something unique that hasn't been scanned yet, you can maybe try the new initiative announced today by Jason Scott aka @texfiles:
Announcing SCANTASTIX, a project that @KevinSavetz and I have
whipped up to go after a class of what I call "Unadvocated Materials"
and can be summarized as "If you have a few extra bucks, you can
ensure neat stuff gets scanned and put on the Internet Archive".
...
If you saw how we did the Ted Nelson Junk Mail project, this would be
similar. We take boxes of material, loose or bound, and scan it into
digital form and store away the originals.
Alternatively, you can try a service like 1dollarscan.com (there may be others)
answered 3 hours ago
Igor SkochinskyIgor Skochinsky
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First, check if the documents aren't already present on Bitsavers and Archive.org.
If you do have something unique that hasn't been scanned yet, you can maybe try the new initiative announced today by Jason Scott aka @texfiles:
Announcing SCANTASTIX, a project that @KevinSavetz and I have
whipped up to go after a class of what I call "Unadvocated Materials"
and can be summarized as "If you have a few extra bucks, you can
ensure neat stuff gets scanned and put on the Internet Archive".
...
If you saw how we did the Ted Nelson Junk Mail project, this would be
similar. We take boxes of material, loose or bound, and scan it into
digital form and store away the originals.
Alternatively, you can try a service like 1dollarscan.com (there may be others)
answered 3 hours ago
Igor SkochinskyIgor Skochinsky
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First, check if the documents aren't already present on Bitsavers and Archive.org.
If you do have something unique that hasn't been scanned yet, you can maybe try the new initiative announced today by Jason Scott aka @texfiles:
Announcing SCANTASTIX, a project that @KevinSavetz and I have
whipped up to go after a class of what I call "Unadvocated Materials"
and can be summarized as "If you have a few extra bucks, you can
ensure neat stuff gets scanned and put on the Internet Archive".
...
If you saw how we did the Ted Nelson Junk Mail project, this would be
similar. We take boxes of material, loose or bound, and scan it into
digital form and store away the originals.
Alternatively, you can try a service like 1dollarscan.com (there may be others)
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Kindling or heat during a long cold winter comes to mind. Cheaper than shipping and a lot less labor intensive than scanning them all. Not too many people care about CP/M or
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Kindling or heat during a long cold winter comes to mind. Cheaper than shipping and a lot less labor intensive than scanning them all. Not too many people care about CP/M or
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