Good morning all. After the help you provided in getting my serial to USB situation sorted out, I thought i'd update you on the air museum project I used it for.
The New England Air Museum ( www.neam.org ) was created in the early 1960s, and in the following decades, collected literally tens of thousands of items such as flight schedules, books on aviation, aeronautical periodicals, art works, engineering drawings, audio/video materials, and close to 100 aircraft. As a research librarian, I figured putting all the collection into a searchable database would be a Great Leap Forward. Using my 1986 M102, I walked from collection to collection, entering each item into a simple text database, applying an appropriate index code and descriptor. Then using the serial to USB connection to upload the DO files to the ResourceMate library system our Win10 server, I've now got the entire collection indexed in a digital format. It's public access, but won't have internet access until next fall. I had planned to include photos of the process, but the listserv prohibits large size messages. Sorry 'bout that. (I used my 102 specifically because it's light, rugged and easily carried, has no "flapping" hinged screen, and TEXT is bullet proof. Most folks at the museum wondered what the heck it was.) Progress. Tom M. Eastford CT
