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Re: Syndicomm Scam

On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, D Finnigan wrote:


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.
I don't think everything automatically gets up there. I suddenly started looking at archive.org a couple of months ago, and it's a mixed bag. So you can get Mississippi John Hurt's first album, from the thirties, but the only New Riders of the Purple Sage is what the group has allowed to be there. THere are books at Gutenberg that aren't at archive.org. There are things out of copyright that aren't there either, but that may just be that nobody has scanned it. 

  MIchael