[Coco] rainbow on cd or dvd

[Aaron Wolfe]

Great, please everyone do seed as much as possible.  The more the merrier.
Once the whole file is seeded by someone else in addition to me, I'll
upload the individual files to malted ftp (some are already there).
Can't spare the outbound bandwidth at the moment as I'm the only seed.


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's awesome!  I promise to not just be a 'leeecher'. :)
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> While the project is awesome, and I do participate occasionally, at
>>> the current rate it's going to be a very long time before we get to
>>> see it finished!
>>>
>>> Someone posted a collection a few years ago to a megaupload site, but
>>> that one is now gone.  I wasn't able to get a full set.  The
>>> individual issues were massive in size, several hundred megs each if I
>>> recall, not very efficient compression.   Just a set of readable .jpeg
>>> or .png scans would be awesome.  (hint hint)
>>> A .torrent would probably be the ideal distribution method.
>>>
>>
>> ask and ye shall receive.  sometimes at least.
>>
>> http://aaronwolfe.com/rainbow.torrent
>>
>> thats all the rainbows, OCR'ed and "optimized" for space savings.. all
>> are PDF, smaller than 50MB, most much smaller.
>> Used Clearscan where I could and still get a decent file size.  For
>> the bigger issues (early 80s) the Clearscan made them bigger than my
>> target size so I used "searchable image" OCR.  If you prefer the
>> readability enhancement of Clearscan, you
>> can simply run a CS OCR pass on these files, they double in size but
>> become nicer to read.
>>
>> Also, the contents of all these rainbows, some other coco mags, 68
>> micro journal, and lots of manuals can be searched online at
>> http://cococoding.com
>> The OCR is not perfect like Tim's project, you won't copy and paste
>> code from these.  However, searching for topics/keywords works pretty
>> well.
>>
>> -Aaron
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