Can you share your setup (with photos)? How did you generate the index codes? Did you just make a plain CSV file?
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 11:38 AM Kurt McCullum <ku...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Great use of your 102 Tom! > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Thomas Morehouse wrote: > > 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 > > > >
