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Re: Syndicomm Scam

On Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:29:40 PM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:
> Christopher G. Mason wrote:
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> > On 4/25/2013 4:48 PM, Sean Fahey wrote:
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> >> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:09:55 PM UTC-5, Christopher G. Mason wrote:
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> >>
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> >>> Speaking of reference manuals. There are some that aren't even available
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> >>> from Syndicomm that I would like to get a hold of that are unobtainium,
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> >>> like the Image Writer LQ Technical Reference.
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> >>
> 
> >> I have a copy of this. I've been loath to send it anywhere for scanning
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> >> because it would likely mean breaking the binding and ruining it (as a
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> >> book). I've been looking for a second 'donor' copy to give to Tony (who
> 
> >> asked to scan it).
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> >>
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> >> Argh. If I don't find another copy by Kansasfest, I guess I could let it
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> >> go for scanning.
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> >>
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> > 
> 
> > You might want to ask Jason Scott if he is willing to scan it (and any 
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> > other reference manuals). If I recall he has one of the Internet 
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> > Archive's book scanning rigs that do not require unbinding of books to 
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> > properly scan pages. The trade off is that its likely going into the 
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> > Archive's computer documentation collection, no questions asked.
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> > 
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> > <http://archive.org/details/apple_documentation>
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> >
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> 
> 
> So archive.org is hosting Apple II materials now? Well, that's it. Might as
> 
> well shut down my site. No point in duplicating effort. Who can compete with
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> archive.org and their petabytes of storage and unlimited bandwidth and high
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> traffic. :-/
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> 
> 
> We can close all the Apple II archive sites now that archive.org is here.
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> 
> 
> -- 
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> ]DF$
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I sense a tone there, but what tone that is I am unsure ...