Re: Syndicomm Scam

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Christopher G. Mason wrote:
> On 4/25/2013 4:48 PM, Sean Fahey wrote:
>> On Thursday, April 25, 2013 3:09:55 PM UTC-5, Christopher G. Mason wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of reference manuals. There are some that aren't even available
>>> from Syndicomm that I would like to get a hold of that are unobtainium,
>>> like the Image Writer LQ Technical Reference.
>>
>> I have a copy of this. I've been loath to send it anywhere for scanning
>> because it would likely mean breaking the binding and ruining it (as a
>> book). I've been looking for a second 'donor' copy to give to Tony (who
>> asked to scan it).
>>
>> Argh. If I don't find another copy by Kansasfest, I guess I could let it
>> go for scanning.
>>
> 
> You might want to ask Jason Scott if he is willing to scan it (and any 
> other reference manuals). If I recall he has one of the Internet 
> Archive's book scanning rigs that do not require unbinding of books to 
> properly scan pages. The trade off is that its likely going into the 
> Archive's computer documentation collection, no questions asked.
> 
> <http://archive.org/details/apple_documentation>
>

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
archive.org and their petabytes of storage and unlimited bandwidth and high
traffic. :-/

We can close all the Apple II archive sites now that archive.org is here.

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