[Coco] REQ: 1991 Radio Shack Catalog

Mon Mar 18 09:40:11 EDT 2013

Just an update: the guy from the website has contacted me and will be supplying watermark-free images.

Art, thanks for the suggestion… it worked.

On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> Art,
> 
> As I've stated earlier, I wish to have no watermarks on any of the images that will be published in the book, obscured or not. I believe that doing so would give the reader the impression that these images were screen scraped from the web.
> 
> It may be a fine point, but it is a point nonetheless.
> 
> Regards,
> Boisy
> 
> On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> I looked at the pages earlier, and the only watermark I noticed was in
>> the bottom margin of the page, not obscuring anything.
>> 
>> Art
>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>> Art,
>>> 
>>> Credit would be given in the caption, but I don't want watermarks splattered in the images. Perhaps it's a minor point to some, but as the author, I want images that aren't obscured with watermarks.
>>> 
>>> Boisy
>>> 
>>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Would it be so bad to reprint the pages WITH the watermark?  Who'd
>>>> object to giving credit for their admirable compilation of RS
>>>> catalogs?
>>>> 
>>>> Art
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>>>> Art,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The pages are watermarked. I could ask if it is possible to get the two pages sans the watermark. I'll do that as a backup.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can't you just ask the website for permission, and attribute it to
>>>>>> them??  Can't see why they'd object to reprinting 2 pages.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Art
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> No, we cannot use that. It has the pages watermarked, and we need scans from someone that we can attribute to.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Luis Fernández <luis46coco at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> try in
>>>>>>>> http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>>> From: boisy at tee-boy.com
>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:17:16 -0500
>>>>>>>>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [Coco] REQ: 1991 Radio Shack Catalog
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm hoping to get some help for the CoCo Book. We're in need of a scan of the following two pages of the 1991 Radio Shack Catalog: 166 and 167. I don't have this catalog on-hand, and am hoping someone on the list has it and can scan it for us.  If anyone can do this, please let me know via email. I need the scan at 150DPI and in full color, making the best scan possible.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Boisy
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