[Coco] Rainbow in PDF! And Hot COCO! And Color Computer

[Arthur Flexser]

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I wonder if the email address means he is now mayor of Prospect, KY?  I can
certainly picture him getting involved in politics.

Art

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:


> I emailed Lonnie Falk in regards to the project I proposed to him way back

> when.  I don't know what success you guys have seen in contacting him but

> I figure it's worth a shot.  I used the email address from the Prospect

> web page (mayor at prospectky.com) and received an anti-span reply that let

> me verify that I was a real sender, so I assume the message got to his

> inbox.  If there is a better address could someone please let me know???

> 

> If we are considering doing a "share" project perhaps we should start

> accruing a list of who has what magazines so that we can determine what we

> are missing as a community.

> 

> I am going to start scanning in my own collection and will provide a list

> of what magazines I have over the next few weeks.  I figure that if the

> best I am able do is to preserve what I currently have I am ahead of the

> game.  I do not want to do anything illegal or unethical, and I assume

> that we are all of one mind about this.  I am not sure what this means

> practically....

> 

> Thoughts?

> 

> Regards,

> Michael Harwood

> (Any spelling errors are intenshunal)

> 

> 

> > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:34 -0600, Michael Wayne Harwood wrote:

> >> I'm new to the list so I may have missed some of this conversation.  I

> >> purchased a flatbed scanner with a document feeder last year just for

> >> this

> >> purpose, but after contacting Lonnie I was fairly discouraged and

> >> haven't

> >> started the project.  He said he would be willing to work out some sort

> >> of

> >> payment plan so that scanned versions could be sold, but the cost was

> >> still very high and I didn't think the COCO community would go for a

> >> huge

> >> cost item.  His site is selling some of the older editions for as much

> >> as

> >> $9!

> >

> > I actually find that *very* encouraging. I'm sure he'd allow a discount

> > for a "complete" set purchase rather than one-off copies.

> >

> > The good thing is that he's not just hoarding the intellectual

> > property... he's willing to entertain the idea.

> >

> > Does anyone have any evidence of average price for rainbow magazine

> > issues on Ebay? We should probably go to him with that kind of

> > information in hand, as well as the average lot sizes so you could

> > figure in what someone would really pay given shipping, etc. to get a

> > complete collection and then work down from there.

> >

> > Plus he ought to see reason and allow some profit to the those doing the

> > work of getting it into digital form. That amount could be distributed

> > to the folks scanning the documents, or placed in a fund for programming

> > or hardware-design bounties, or something like that.

> >

> > The DVD would have to be less... PDF copies are not nearly as valuable

> > as printed copies to a collector.

> >

> > Just business. Once it's in distribution, he might allow playing with

> > the price to find the sweet spot for sales.

> >

> >>

> >> I do not have a complete collection, and many of the issues are in

> >> somewhat sad shape.  I managed to get my hands on a few Hot COCO's and

> >> Color Computer Magazine's as well.  I would love to recreate my entire

> >> COCO magazine collection and archive it before time and environement

> >> destroys the printed versions completely.

> >>

> >> What would you guys consider "high quality"??  After doing some initial

> >> scans I found that the quality I was willing to live with ended up being

> >> so large in size that I was going to be lucky if I got one of the

> >> smaller

> >> magazines on a single CD.  DVD is workable, but still somewhat cost

> >> prohibitive for a large collection.  There is also the issues related to

> >> DVD and CD degredation over time - even if stored properly and used

> >> seldom

> >> they won't last forever.  Any thoughts?

> >

> > I dunno. DVD seems workable.

> >

> > As to bit-rot: we could use a utility to add an error correcting code to

> > each file. And reserve space for, say, a 50meg "Damn Small Linux" mini

> > linux distribution so that the DVD can boot itself and make as many

> > backup copies as you need... just have to remember to make a new image

> > every few years. I think that would solve the bit-rot problem once and

> > for all, and would probably interest other vintage documentation

> > collectors.

> >

> > You can get about 13gig onto a Mini-DV tape w/ error correcting code

> > which can withstand a pin-sized hole in the tape.

> >

> > But not everyone has mini-dv.

> >

> >>

> >> I would certainly be willing to participate and contribute to the effort

> >> -

> >> I feel like I should start with my own copies before making overtures

> >> about my level of committment, but I am motivated to save my poor

> >> magazines!!

> >>

> >>

> >

> > I'd be willing to sacrifice some of mine. That's what makes it good to

> > have a collective effort... everybody only has to donate a few of their

> > copies.

> >

> > -- John.

> >

> >

> 

> 

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