[Coco] Dynamic Color News newsletter (again)

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 09 May 2018 20:12:55 Wayne Campbell wrote:

> Are hand scanners still around? Alan Sheltra had one. To scan a 8.5 x
> 11 page he would scan each side and then put them together in
> Photoshop. No need to destroy a magazine doing it that way, though it
> probably takes more time than separating all the pages and scanning
> them back one page at a time would.
>
> Just a thought.

My bigger Brother printer is an mfc, which can scan or print (but print 
that size is a hand feed the paper PITA) could do that. It has an ADF 
but for this just put the open magazine face down on the scanner glass 
by hand and scan both pages into one file. xsane I believe can handle 
that.  Its an MFC-J6920DW, probably superceded by a newer model by now, 
but a check of the shelves at your nearest Staples might dig up the 
latest version. Or with a bit of fiddling with xsane, I could still lay 
it on the glass but scan each page individually.

The scanner/copier does great, at up to 9600 dpi. But I only have about 
2/3rd's of a terabyte of drive to spare, so I'd have to do less 
resolution than that. At 9600 dpi, thats nearly 50GIB for a 2 page full 
color image. :( Drop that to 600 dpi, which mucks up the accuracy of the 
OCR, and a 2 page wide image is only 193 megs. At 2400 dpi, the OCR is 
decent, and its just over 3gigs a double page.

That would not require that your library copy would need to be unstapled, 
or however its bound.

How much space is available at your archive site?

My upload bandwidth would need to be held to 200G/month, maybe less, I am 
allowed 300, and am presently using less than 100.

How many pages are these magazines on average?

> On May 9, 2018 5:02 PM, "Steve Ostrom" <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Steve S, I have all 59 issues that were printed, from Feb 84 – Mar 89.
>  Do I remember correctly that you wanted to cut these apart in order
> to make scanning easier?  I won’t allow that to my collection, but am
> willing to scan some as they are.  Hopefully someone can find a source
> that has been scanned already.  I remember years ago, someone from
> this list was doing a tremendous amount of scanning, and I helped am
> bit in that project.  Maybe fear of copyright infringement stopped
> that effort?  Maybe someone here remembers that person.
>
> --- Steve O ---
>
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> From: Steve Stroh
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 3:39 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: [Coco] Dynamic Color News newsletter (again)
>
> Renewing the call for anyone who has Dynamic Color News newsletters
> that would be willing to have it scanned and made available online for
> all us CoCoFolk.
>
> A Google Search doesn't show any available online. Not even available
> from the Internet Archive.
>
> I'm particularly interested in it because in my latest search, I found
> a classified ad (remember those?) for the newsletter in the back of an
> Amateur Radio magazine. Out of curiosity I called the phone number
> listed, but alas, it's disconnected.
>
> Alternatively, for anyone who ISN'T willing to have their issues
> scanned, could you look at the last issue you have and perhaps provide
> the contact info available.
>
> The company that published it is Dynamic Electronics in Hartselle, AL,
> and I can't find any online information available. There was a website
> listing at one time, but now offline.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Stroh N8GNJ
>
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