And in the not too distant future, one will be able to read all 50+ years of The TEXAS CAVER on this site, as well.
A big thanks goes to George Veni for spearheading this effort. Mark -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:14 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] old AMCS newsletters Soon after I started caving, I became interested in reading AMCS newsletters. But it was not easy for me to get my hands on an issue. I usually had to buy one once a year at TCR, in order to get the privilege to read it. But I was a college student on a very tight budget. So, it took me several years to get caught up on all the speleo-history of the AMCS. Today's new cavers don't realize how lucky they are. Many issues are view-able online as PDF's, and can be saved on your iPad, or e-Reader. The one below mentions Richard M. Smith ( as a staff member of the newsletter ) http://digital.lib.usf.edu:8080/fedora/get/usfldc:A30-00009/DOCUMENT_PDF Here is another: http://www.cave-exploration.com/papers/Yaxchen-AMCS.pdf It looks like quite a few of them are view-able from the KarstPortal site: http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v001-January.p df http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v002-May.pdf http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1975-v003-October.p df http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1976-v004-May.pdf http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1977-v005-January.p df http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Assn_Mex_Cave/1977-v005-index.pdf I look forward to the day, when I have a portable gadget where I can easily manage and retrieve all the cool caving information that has saturated the internet. A creative caver could sell a caver-modified iPad at the next NSS Convention that is pre-loaded with Speleo-Bloatware. That would be so awesome. How much extra would you pay for an iPad 2, that had built-in apps just for cavers ? And how would it be different from a stock model ? ( e-mail me privately and I will share the comments with others. ) David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
