[Coco] Help me digitize Color Computer Magazines

[Shain Klammer]

IMHO, I'd agree with Tim that the square bracket notation should (at least)
include an indication that it was not part of the original text - "The CoCo
A/D converter has seven resistors and one CMOS butter [Archivist's Note:
buffer]."  The "Archivist's Note" could be abbreviated to something like
"*A*", if noted as such somewhere.

I'd also request that any later published corrections be referenced in the
original article.

sk

2008/9/11 Frank Swygert <farna at att.net>

> 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...
>
> ----------
> 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.
>
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