[Info-vax] Digital docs and literature

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 9/5/2019 6:02 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> I'm being told that my stash of DEC stuff is no longer welcome to remain at work on the back shelves.  We can keep one set of manuals and recent media / doc kits, but they want the rest gone.  The stuff is here at work because I lost my computer room at home to other purposes.
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> I considered some sales on ebay (some of it might have collector interest), but Ebay _sucks_ for small time sellers any more so wondered if there's any place that would have the same use for literature (ads, pamphlets, system catalogs, DECdirect catalogs, etc) that I know some sites like VT100.NET has for docs; they scan them and make them available.  I doubt the computer museum places have a desire for them...  I don't have a lot but I really don't want to dumpster it or shove it into storage.
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> No I don't have a list or inventory yet.
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> Thanks
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> Rich
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Hi Rich,

I'm near Fort Worth, TX.  I don't think you're very close, but I'd be interested in finding out what you have.  I have a scanner that can be used to digitize documents.  There are places online that would take them also.  Al Kosssow at Bitsavers.Org archives thousands of things and will scan them as well.  he has a huge backlog as you can imagine so it may take a while before it's online.  The Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine <https://archive.org/> also will archive documents.  Not sure ho deep their backlog is.  Both take pre-scanned files for uploading when done within certain formats.

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John H. Reinhardt