[Coco] Rainbow Magazine

[Paul E. Jones]

Here is one fairly recent thread:
http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/2008-March/035158.html

But, Roy did not mention who the person was doing the scanning.

Roy?

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 3:26 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow Magazine
> 
> List members: Please help me where my memory is fading...
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Please review the archive of this mailing list - I can't point you to
> when the last discussion on this was, but it was earlier this year:
> 
>    http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/
> 
> As far as I remember, the state of the Rainbow Magazine scanning is
> still in limbo. Lonnie had given his blessing to have the magazine
> scanned, then re-published on DVD, so long as he received a royalty for
> each issue (it was something absurdly low for what we would have
> gotten). An individual (I can't remember his name, I think he is still
> active here) was the "liason" and scanner of the magazines. Many people
> donated magazines and he had access to a nice scanner and a method to
> separate the pages from the spine of the magazine (thus rendering them
> into individual pages and destroying the issues), so that the pages
> would go flat into the scanner for quality scans. They were scanned,
> cleaned up, ocr'ed (IIRC - for searchability), then converted to
> DejaVue
> format (an open-source PDF-like document publishing format). The
> project
> was going well.
> 
> Then Lonnie died.
> 
> His estate had little to no clue about all of this. As far as I know,
> they aren't talking to us about anything. I am imagining that this may
> all be still going through probate, although his death has been a while
> back now (or - it sadly seems that way).
> 
> The individual doing the scanning couldn't continue, and I don't
> remember where it was left. There was discussion about continuing the
> scanning by another individual, transferring the whole kit-n-kaboodle,
> but I think this was even in question, as to how the contract between
> Lonnie and the guy was written - it didn't seem that it could be
> transferred, and the estate (and/or its lawyers) didn't want to talk to
> us about it...
> 
> It's in limbo - and we don't want to jepardize its status, because you
> can bet that if we did go ahead anyhow, that same estate would
> "suddenly" figure it out and get greedy and drag us into court over
> 20-30 year old magazines.
> 
> I would like an update on all of this as well. I would like an answer
> out of the estate.
> 
> I worry that a lot was lost with Lonnie's passing - not just this
> contract and all the effort behind the scanning - but also stuff we
> will
> never see and was likely tossed in the trash (ie, history of Falsoft
> and
> the Rainbow, any of Lonnies notes and other personal CoCo history,
> etc).
> 
> I hate being on the "long tail" of things...
> 
> -- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona
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