Awesome!

 

Jeff Birt (Hey Birt!)

 

From: M100 <m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com> On Behalf Of Thomas Morehouse
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 9:47 AM
To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com
Subject: [M100] M102 victory

 

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 <http://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

 

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