[Coco] [Color Computer] Holy Mods Batman!

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

I am getting an Epson scanner in the next few days. I always like the 
Epson's scanners and printers. I used to do tech support for HP (call 
center) so I know what a nightmare HP'S software is. Probaly why I will 
never by an HP Home Product in my life. I don't know how good the new Epson 
software is, but I have been using a UMAX Scuzi scaner for over seven years 
almost on a daily basis, Its just a shame that Futureshop up here in Canada 
stopped selling anything but HP and Canon.
I have plans to scan all the CoCo manuals to PDF format and even the Service 
Manuals. This should take oh, about a year, but I will be an expert a 
Acrobat once its done.
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>My COCO magazines are from 1982-1985 but many are missing since my
>brother borrowed them and they went up in a tornado.
>I have several Color Computer News, Rainbow, HOT COCO and might even
>have some 68 Micro Journal.  My mom bought me subscriptions to all of
>these at one time or another.  Many of mine are missing the cover or
>are a bit tattered though.
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>I remember HOT COCO going under and Color Computer News... well... it
>kinda turned in to a FLEX this and FLEX that magazine and I stopped
>subscribing or it went under... not sure which.  I think I only have
>one year of 68 Micro... just not enough COCO stuff in it I could use.
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>I have access to a couple scanners (one is mine but it's on loan to my
>brother... will I ever learn?).
>Make sure you scan at 300 DPI so OCR software can be used on the
>program listings.  I had to bypass the auto conversion that the HP
>software was doing and train the OCR software myself to get decent
>results.  I still have to fix a lot of stuff but it beats typing it
>all by hand.
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>I'm also scanning some old 6502, Z80, etc... books.
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>--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Glen VanDenBiggelaar"
><glenvdb at h...> wrote:
> > You right James,
> > I am in the process of getting a new scanner (i killed my old one)
>and I
> > will be scanning the last 2 years (thats all I have now) of rainbow
>and they
> > will be up on my website in PDF.
> > I think ther is a goldmine opertunity for the rights holder (if any) of
> > those old publications to ether re-print the magazines in a book
>form or on
> > CD in PDF form. I just got my first taste of the Rainbow (never saw
>them in
> > the 80's or 90's here in Canada), and even though they are literaly
>falling
> > apart, they hold a wealth of information- and its cool to see all
>the old
> > Ads. The only bad thing is that last year of the Rainbow were
>printed in a
> > "newspaper" form which when scanned, looks rather bad.
> > I have the first, second, third and fourth Rainbow book of
>adventures that
> > will be up on my online store right away, although the first was just a
> > magazine, and it is falling apart. I guess the previous owner used
>them too
> > well, or just never took care of them.
> > -Glen
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> > >I've seen most of those in Rainbow magazine or other COCO magazines.
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> > >I think it would be a good idea everyone started scanning in their
> > >COCO magazines and books so they could be made available on a website
> > >or CD.  I still have a quite a few magazines and The 3rd Rainbow Book
> > >of Adventures I could scan but not all are in the best condition.
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