[Coco] rainbow on cd or dvd

[Sean]

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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