[Coco] Help me digitize Color Computer Magazines

[Frank Swygert]

I'd rather see small technical errors that could be confusing/misleading changed. Tim's suggestion is good, but leave the comments and initial out -- just make the correction in square brackets. It's not likely that anyone reading will recognize the initials anyway, and a comment on the site or at the beginning of the mag file can read "Corrections to original text are made in square brackets following the original text where needed for technical accuracy/clarity."

"The CoCo A/D converter has seven resistors and one CMOS butter [buffer]."

That doesn't look intrusive, a long comment and initials would to me, but that's just my opinion. I would only make changes where really needed though. That particular one probably wouldn't be confusing, not to anyone who has a clue as to what they are reading anyway, but I'd still correct it for clarity/accuracy. 

PROGRAM LISTINGS are another matter! If a known error shows up there by all means correct it!! There's nothing more irritating than spending a few hours typing a listing in to find it doesn't work, and you don't know quite enough about debugging/programming to find out why! So the correction is listed two months later... in an issue you don't have/hasn't been scanned yet...  With the OCR'd text, you should be able to just select the text, put it in a word processor, save as an ASCII (.txt) file, then transfer to the CoCo and do a little editing to make it run. Should...

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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:11:42 -0700
From: "tim lindner" <tlindner at macmess.org>

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:

> > So, should we fix errors in the original text, or make the OCR text
> > match what was printed.  I've been doing the latter.  But it's
> > interesting to learn that the CoCo's A/D converter circuit has seven
> > resistors and one CMOS butter.  So should the Next-Gen CoCo have a CMOS
> > whipping cream, or a 'yeah-butter'?
>   

I've seen these also.

Robert Gault asked about this earlier. I said to him I was leaning
toward reproducing the original article without alteration. Decreeing
that spelling and grammatical mistakes should be fixed would be a
little hyppotricital of me. *grin*

Factual errors seem to be a different matter. How about we add
something like: [Archivist's Note: Butter is delicious and all, but
has no place in a computer. -tjl]

Note, the square brackets and initials.

-- 
Frank Swygert
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