[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Chris]

On 08/07/18 20:16, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>
> Nice thought, but Volume 1 of the PDP-11 set alone is
> 937 pages.
>
> And, you would have to destroy the book in order to scan
> them unless you wanted to stand at the scanner and do them
> one page at a time. And then, forcing the binding, you
> would probably destroy them anyway.
>
> bill
>

Right, I have books like that. Example: a Pro300 series
hardware manual, wire bound and getting on for an inch
thick. On the side for ages, but eventually cut off the
ring strip and scanned it. More difficult with edge
bound books, but more valuable to many as a pdf, than
to me as a book, when I may never need it again. Some
of that sw may be alive somewhere out there on the web,
some obscure ftp site, but if we don't have the
name, how can we find it ?.

Various doc scanners over the years, but a couple of
years ago, picked a high end usb Panasonic KVS4065 for
a pittance. Needed a service kit, but will do a 30mm
stack of A4, colour and duplex in two or three minutes.
Loads of stuff to scan, not just in computing and
electronics and not getting any younger...

Chris