[PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread John Meissen
I've (almost) accepted the fact that I need to downsize, and I'm faced with getting rid of 30 years of computing literature. I'm hoping someone might have some ideas or suggestions. When I was in college (way too many years ago) I used to enjoy browsing the CompSci library and reading the

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:32 -0700 John Meissen j...@meissen.org dijo: I'm going to have to put them in the recycle bin if I can't find a home for them. Have you checked libraries? They may not be able to take them, even if they want them, for lack of storage space. But it's worth a couple of

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread Russell Senior
John == John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net writes: I'm going to have to put them in the recycle bin if I can't find a home for them. John Have you checked libraries? They may not be able to take them, John even if they want them, for lack of storage space. But it's John worth a couple of

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
It pains me to just throw this all away. That's the kind of stuff I really like to read. If I had the space for it I would be saying mine mine mine. I'm going to send this on to a few people who might have thoughts on who could use it. ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Johnson tekno...@gmail.com wrote: It pains me to just throw this all away. Is there any way we could digitize it? (does anyone have a bulk scanner + table saw to cut the bindings off?) --Rogan That's the kind of stuff I really like to read. If I had

Re: [PLUG] historical stuff

2011-10-18 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:03, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way we could digitize it? (does anyone have a bulk scanner + table saw to cut the bindings off?) before you do that, you should ask jason scott of textfiles.com if it's already done (since he spends a lot of